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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[

Hydro-

, 1 +

pneumatic

: cf. F.

hydropneumatique

Pertaining to, or depending upon, both liquid and gaseous substances;

as,

hydropneumatic

apparatus for collecting gases over water or other liquids

Adj.

[Gr. water, and inflated, breath, spirit.]

An epithet given to a vessel of water, with other apparatus for chimical experiments.