resistance thermometer

American  

noun

Metallurgy.

1. an instrument for measuring the temperature of a metal, utilizing the principle that the electrical resistance of the metal varies with the temperature.

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resistance thermometer British  

noun

1. an accurate type of thermometer in which temperature is calculated from the resistance of a coil of wire (usually of platinum) or of a semiconductor placed at the point at which the temperature is to be measured

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Etymology

Origin of resistance thermometer

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

The electrical resistance thermometer of platinum presents very great advantages for this purpose over the mercury thermometer in point of reproducibility, accuracy and adaptability to the practical conditions of experiment.

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Diagram of galvanometer coil, used with recording apparatus for resistance thermometers in water-circuit 40 21.

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Its success as a fair insulator at moderate temperatures has led to its use in resistance thermometers, where it appears to have given satisfaction up to, at all events, 400° C.

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Medical research, and our health problems, can use such things as film resistance thermometers.

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On the wall, in the rear, is the recording apparatus for electric resistance thermometers in the water-circuit, a detail of which is shown in fig.

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