Cavendish balance
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Cavendish balance
[′kav·ən·dish ′bal·əns] (engineering)
An instrument for determining the constant of gravitation, in which one measures the displacement of two small spheres of mass m, which are connected by a light rod suspended in the middle by a thin wire, caused by bringing two large spheres of mass M near them.
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