ALL meanings of cryophorus
- noun cryophorus a glass tube with a bulb at each end which contains water and water vapour, used in physics to demonstrate freezing by evaporation 3
- noun cryophorus (chemistry) An instrument used to illustrate the freezing of water by its own evaporation. The ordinary form consists of two glass bulbs connected by a tube and containing only a quantity of water and water vapour, devoid of air. The water is in one of the bulbs, and freezes when the other is cooled below zero. 0