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.
A common type of organic acid anhydride is a carboxylic anhydride, where the parent acid is a carboxylic acid, the formula of the anhydride being (RC(O)) 2 O. Symmetrical acid anhydrides of this type are named by replacing the word acid in the name of the parent carboxylic acid by the word anhydride.ne of the acyl groups of an acid anhydride can be derived from an inorganic acid such as phosphoric acid. The mixed anhydride 1,3-bisphosphoglycerate is an intermediate in the formation of ATP via glycolysis, is the mixed anhydride between 3-phosphoglyceric acid and phosphoric acid.