torsion balance in English
noun
1
an instrument for measuring very weak forces by their effect on a system of fine twisted wire.
The first person to have a proper go at it was Cavendish, who managed to measure G in his famous experiment with a torsion balance about 200 years ago.
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1. Suitable measurement techniques include: paramagnetic alternating pressure, magnetic torsion balance or zirconium dioxide probe.
2. A more accurate measurement of the mean density of the Earth was made 24 years after Schiehallion, when in 1798 Henry Cavendish used an exquisitely sensitive torsion balance to measure the attraction between large masses of lead.