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Spring balance   /sprɪŋ bˈæləns/   Listen
Spring balance

noun
1.
A balance that measure weight by the tension on a helical spring.  Synonym: spring scale.





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"Spring balance" Quotes from Famous Books



... without sufficient contact to account for the observed facts. Crookes' experiments, in particular, are very conclusive in this direction—his apparatus being very similar to that designed by Professor Alrutz. He employed a board, one end of which was attached to a spring balance, while the other end of the board rested upon a solid table. The subject placed his hands upon the board, and a definite pressure was registered by the balance—far more than could be obtained in any normal manner. These experiments ...
— The Problems of Psychical Research - Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal • Hereward Carrington
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Words linked to "Spring balance" :   spring scale, balance


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