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Engineering Dictionary

Shore Scleroscope

An instrument that measures the hardness of a sample in arbitrary terms of elasticity. A diamond tipped hammer is allowed to fall freely down a graduated glass tube on to the sampel under test. The hardness is measured by the height of the rebound. In another for the rebounding hammer actuates the pointer of a scale so that the height of the rebound is recorded.