"fadometer" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1930, Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry, Technical Association Papers - Volume 13, page 75",
          "text": "We also tried the fadometer and found it graded in between. Taking that same example — between 70 and 21 to the ultra-violet light — it was 70 and 45 to the fadometer.",
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          "ref": "1936, The Journal of the American Leather Chemists Association",
          "text": "The use of a fadometer is to be recommended, but because of its limited use in the average leather laboratory the adoption of the ordinary exposure test is considered best.",
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          "ref": "1940 August 19, “River Rouge”, in LIFE, volume 9, number 8, page 45",
          "text": "A hundred hours in the fadometer equals half a year in Florida sunshine.",
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          "ref": "1957, Milton Jacobs, Fabrics and Fibers for Passenger Cars",
          "text": "Essentially, these consisted of placing fabric swatches under the light of the Florida sun or of a fadometer, and then examining them to determine the degree of fade.",
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        "A device that irradiates materials in order to test the degree to which they fade from exposure to sunlight."
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