He described a new eudiometer of his own invention, with which he achieved the best results to date, using what in other hands had been the inexact method of measuring gases by weighing them.
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Because the eudiometer was originally used to measure the amount of oxygen in the air, which was thought to be greater in " nice " weather, the root " eudio-" appropriately describes the apparatus.
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Although the eudiometer's invention is usually credited to Marsilio Landriani, it was truly pioneered by Count Alessandro Volta ( 1745 1827 ), an Italian physicist who is well known for his contributions to the electric battery and electricity.
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Obsessed by the measurement of meteorological phenomena, Saussure invented and improved many kinds of apparatus, including the magnetometer, the cyanometer for estimating the blueness of the sky, the diaphanometer for judging the clarity of the atmosphere, the anemometer and the mountain eudiometer.
