Inside the vessel, a pendulum hung motionless until a tremor moved it. At this point, the pendulum's swing set the seismograph's internal levers in motion. This would trigger the release of a ball held in the mouth of the dragon facing the direction of the earthquake's epicenter. The ball would then fall into the mouth of the frog directly below it [source: Xinhua News Agency].
Wiktionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: aliquot (Noun). a portion of a total amount of a solution or suspension. aliquot (Verb). to separate a volume of solution or suspension into aliquots. aliquot (Adjective). Contained in the whole an integral number of times; Origin: From aliquote, from aliquot.
reagents, internal standards, surrogates, glassware, apparatus, equipment, solvents and analyses. laboratory calibration blank An aliquot of reagent water, possibly adjusted in pH, but without addition of other reagents. laboratory dry blank or laboratory procedural blank An aliquot of solvent representing the volume used for RFS extraction treated as an environmental sample but not processed through resin or filters. instrument blank Verification of calibration blank continuing check blank