"halometer" meaning in All languages combined

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        "An instrument for measuring the forms and angles of salts and crystals."
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          "ref": "1949, J. W. D. Megaw, The Indian Medical Gazette - Volume 84, page 312",
          "text": "When a small source of light is viewed through a thin blood film on a glass slide, a circular coloured pattern, or halo, is seen. The angular diameter of this halo is inversely proportional to the diameter of the blood cell and it is this which the halometer measures.",
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