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Thermal Measurements on Small Transient Systems

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EXPERIMENTS recently carried out in this laboratory have shown that it is practicable to heat the wires of a thermocouple by the passage of an electric current and at the same time to record the temperature of the junction by means of the thermo-E.M.F. A high-frequency current is used in order that the concomitant voltage (order 10 volts) may be separated from the thermo-E.M.F. (order 0.001 volts) by means of inductance-capacitance filters. The apparatus can be used for measuring the thermal constants of poor conductors placed in contact with the couple wires.

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  1. Hill, R. A. W., Sutton, L. E., Temple, R. B., and White, A., Research, 3, 569 (1950).

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HILL, R. Thermal Measurements on Small Transient Systems. Nature 170, 29–30 (1952). https://doi.org/10.1038/170029b0

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