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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
| + | {{incomplete|Please edit the explanation below and only mention here why it isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | ||
| − | Here, | + | Here, Megan is talking to Cueball about hygrometers. But before she can even finish explaining what it does, Cueball has looked up, found, and purchased the product. |
| − | + | A {{w|hygrometer}} is an instrument for measuring the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere, or the amount of water in solids such as soil or wood. | |
| − | + | Randall, as Cueball, finds instruments / measurement tools that end in -ometer very interesting, and wishes to own all of them. | |
| − | * A | + | Below is a list of instruments mentioned in the title text that Randall is working on: |
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| + | * A [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/declinometer declinometer] is an instrument to measure {{w|magnetic declination}}. | ||
*A {{w|sclerometer}} is an instrument to measure {{w|scratch hardness}} of a solid by scratching it under some standard conditions and measuring the scratch. Instruments used to measure the elastic properties of concrete surfaces, like the {{w|Schmidt hammer}}, [https://www.pce-instruments.com/english/measuring-instruments/test-meters/concrete-test-hammer-sclerometer-kat_162426_1.htm are also often known as sclerometers]. | *A {{w|sclerometer}} is an instrument to measure {{w|scratch hardness}} of a solid by scratching it under some standard conditions and measuring the scratch. Instruments used to measure the elastic properties of concrete surfaces, like the {{w|Schmidt hammer}}, [https://www.pce-instruments.com/english/measuring-instruments/test-meters/concrete-test-hammer-sclerometer-kat_162426_1.htm are also often known as sclerometers]. | ||
| − | *A {{w|viscometer}} is an instrument to test the viscosity ( | + | *A {{w|viscometer}} is an instrument to test the viscosity (easiness of pouring, honey has high viscosity while water has low viscosity) of a liquid. |
| − | *An [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aleurometer aleurometer] is an instrument to evaluate the quality of flour for baking by measuring how much a wet mass of wheat can expand when | + | *An [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aleurometer aleurometer] is an instrument to evaluate the quality of flour for baking by measuring how much a wet mass of wheat can expand when heated, while keeping its adhesivity.[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleurometer] |
*A {{w|Stalagmometric method|stalagmometer}} is an instrument to measure {{w|surface tension}} of fluids by producing a drop and weighing it - the bigger the drop is, the larger surface tension the fluid has. | *A {{w|Stalagmometric method|stalagmometer}} is an instrument to measure {{w|surface tension}} of fluids by producing a drop and weighing it - the bigger the drop is, the larger surface tension the fluid has. | ||
| − | *The word {{w|hypsometer}} | + | *The word {{w|hypsometer}} can mean [https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/hypsometer two unrelated instruments] to measure height. One measures heights of a building or a tree by triangulation. The other measures altitude by measuring air pressure through its effect on the boiling temperature of water. It should not be confused with the {{w|altimeter}} which measures altitude by mechanically measuring air pressure. |
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| + | *An ometerometer, being a concatenation of [https://www.google.com/search?q=ometer -ometer] with itself, would be a device for measuring measuring devices. | ||
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| + | ===Trivia=== | ||
| − | + | At the moment of the release of this comic, one user's [https://www.google.es/search?rlz=1C1NHXL_caES708ES708&ei=EEHHW-DWBJ2vgAbZyrSQAw&q=ometerometer&oq=ometerometer&gs_l=psy-ab.3...1876.4215.0.4448.12.10.0.0.0.0.376.1163.0j3j1j1.5.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..7.4.786...0j0i131k1j0i67k1j0i131i67k1j0i10k1j0i19k1j0i10i19k1.0.iW8nv_ipPpQ Google search for ometerometer] returned mostly porn related content - although in the following hours the comic itself were climbing positions in the rank. This could be construed to confirm rule 34 as referenced in a previous [[305|xkcd comic]]: "if you can imagine it, there is porn about it"; however further research would be required to determine whether the results actually related to ometerometers, or whether they were in fact just spurious unrelated results. If such links were in fact shown to contain reference to any "ometerometer" it would seem that there was porn about ometerometers even ''before'' Randall imagined them. (Since the link given above is not a static representation of the results available at that time, a more accurate citation is needed to confirm an instance of Rule34.) | |
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