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Construction of Home-Made Tin Fixed-Point Cell at TUBITAK UME

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TUBITAK UME Temperature Laboratory initiated a new study which focuses on the construction of a tin freezing-point cell as a primary temperature standard. The design is an open-cell type similar to the National Institute of Standards and Technology design. With this aim, a brand new vacuum and filling line employing an oil diffusion pump and two cold traps (liquid nitrogen and dry ice) was set-up. The graphite parts (crucible, thermometer well, etc.) have been baked at high temperature under vacuum. Each cell was filled with approximately 1 kg of high-purity tin (99.9999 %) in a three-zone furnace. Then several melting and freezing curves were obtained to assess the quality of the home-made cell, and also the new cell was compared with the existing reference cell of the laboratory. The results obtained are very close to the reference cell of UME, indicating that the method used for fabrication was promising and satisfactory and also seems to meet the requirements to have a primary level temperature standard.

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  1. UME, Ulusal Metroloji Enstitüsü, Bariş Mah. Dr. Zeki Acar Cad. N. 1, 41470, Gebze, Kocaeli, Turkey

    M. Kalemci, N. Arifovic, A. Bağçe & S. O. Aytekin

  2. Physics Department, Yeditepe University, İnönü Mahallesi, Kayışdağı Caddesi, 34755, Istanbul, Turkey

    A. T. Ince

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Kalemci, M., Arifovic, N., Bağçe, A. et al. Construction of Home-Made Tin Fixed-Point Cell at TUBITAK UME. Int J Thermophys 36, 1968–1979 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10765-015-1944-x

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