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What does electrometer mean?

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Noun
  1. A device used to detect and measure static electricity; an electroscope.
  2. A precision voltmeter that draws almost no current from the circuit.
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To detect the small resulting current, she used an electrometer of an excellent design created by Pierre and his physicist brother, Jacques, some years earlier.
Rather, he was standing still, carefully reading a delicate instrument inside his apartment, when lightning struck an iron rod outside to which the electrometer was connected.
The dye was iontophoretically injected by current pulses of short duration, generated by the electrometer.
Cables aside, he carried out research into atmospheric electricity, inventing the water-dropping collector, and vastly improving the electrometer.
The use of an electrometer or galvanoscope for sensing magnetic field or electric fields are well known.
Hertz generated cathode rays inside an apparatus that included an electrometer to measure the electrical charge of the rays.

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