bolometer
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of bolometer
1880–85; < Greek bol ( ḗ ) ray + -o- + -meter
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For example, we can swap the bolometer material from metal to graphene, which has a lower heat capacity and can detect very small changes in its energy quickly.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 10, 2024
Since a bolometer measures power, or photon number, it is not bound to add quantum noise stemming from the Heisenberg uncertainty principle in the way that parametric amplifiers are.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 10, 2024
Last fortnight Dr. Donald H. Andrews of Johns Hopkins University described a bolometer to top them all.
From Time Magazine Archive
He will take daily readings from a bolometer capable of registering to a millionth of a degree the sun's radiation.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Astrophysical Observatory was established, in which Professor Langley has continued his epoch-making work on the sun's radiant heat with his wonderful bolometer, an instrument of his own invention.
From The Reminiscences of an Astronomer by Simon Newcomb
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