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Réaumur
[ rey-uh-myoor; French rey-oh-myr ]
noun
- Re·né An·toine Fer·chault de [r, uh, -, ney, ah, n, -, twan, fe, r, -, shoh, d, uh], 1683–1757, French physicist and inventor.
adjective
- Also Reau·mur. noting or pertaining to a temperature scale Réaumur scale in which 0° represents the ice point and 80° represents the steam point.
Réaumur
/ ˈreɪəˌmjʊə /
adjective
- indicating measurement on the Réaumur scale of temperature
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Réaumur cut off the edge of a newly finished coat, so as to expose the body of the larva at that point.
The second case is that detailed by a no less unexceptionable authority than Réaumur in his "Art de faire éclore les Poulets."
In the eighteenth century Réaumur presented a paper on the fossil shells of Touraine.
Réaumur says that he once saw a snail enter a hive in this way.
His duty was to keep guard in the vestibule, with thirty degrees (Réaumur) of frost, in total darkness, for six or seven hours.
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