The noun COLORIMETER has 1 sense: 1. a measuring instrument used in colorimetric analysis to determine the quantity of a substance from the color it yields with specific reagents. Familiarity information: COLORIMETER used as a noun is very rare.he noun COLORIMETER has 1 sense: 1. a measuring instrument used in colorimetric analysis to determine the quantity of a substance from the color it yields with specific reagents. Familiarity information: COLORIMETER used as a noun is very rare.
anhydride - a compound formed from one or more other compounds in a reaction resulting in removal of water. 1  acetic anhydride - a compound that is needed in order to refine opium into heroin. 2  phthalic anhydride - a white cyclic anhydride.
Succinic anhydride, also called dihydro-2,5-furandione and butanedioic anhydride, is an organic compound with the molecular formula C 4 H 4 O 3.This colorless solid is the acid anhydride of succinic acid.uccinic anhydride, also called dihydro-2,5-furandione and butanedioic anhydride, is an organic compound with the molecular formula C 4 H 4 O 3.