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- If It's Not Broken...Replace It Anyway. // Current Health 1;Nov2002, Vol. 26 Issue 3, p2
Discusses the advantage of replacing mercury thermometer with a digital one.
- Mercury takes fall in Boston. McMullen, Cheryl A. // Waste News;11/27/2000, Vol. 6 Issue 27, p3
Reports on the efforts to phase out the sale of mercury thermometers in Boston, Massachusetts. Threat of the thermometer to the environment and human health; Companies that committed to stop the sale of mercury thermometers.
- Performance of a precise infrared shadow sensor thermometer. Shuhua Fan; Shuchao Wu; Jun Luo // Review of Scientific Instruments;Aug1997, Vol. 68 Issue 8, p3079
Presents the construction and performance of a type of infrared shadow sensor thermometer. Principle of operation; Components and electronic circuitry; Resolution of temperature changes; Sensitivity of the instrument.
- Which Thermometer For Baby Is Most Accurate? // Child Health Alert;Apr2001, Vol. 19, p3
Focuses on a study which compared different types of thermometers tested among infants by doctors at Children's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.
- EXTEREME ANIMALS! Entin, Carli // Scholastic DynaMath;Feb2007, Vol. 25 Issue 5, p8
A quiz on how to read thermometers is presented.
- Properties of industrial-grade platinum–cobalt resistance thermometers between 1 and 27 K. Sakurai, H.; Besley, L. M. // Review of Scientific Instruments;Jun85, Vol. 56 Issue 6, p1232
The stability at 20 K of five industrial-type platinum–cobalt resistance thermometers on thermal cycling has been studied together with their resistance-temperature characteristics between 1 and 27 K and their self-heating. The stability at 20 K on cycling between room temperature and 20...
- Time-dependent resistance relaxation in carbon and RuO2 based thermometers. Skrbek, L.; Stehno, J.; Šebek, J. // Review of Scientific Instruments;Dec1994, Vol. 65 Issue 12, p3804
The long-term time-dependent relaxation of the electrical resistance in several carbon and RuO[sub 2] based temperature sensors at helium temperatures was investigated. The relative change of the resistance at fixed low temperature, measured immediately after sufficiently rapid cooldown has been...
- Infrared Tympanic Thermometers are Unreliable. // Modern Medicine;Oct98, Vol. 66 Issue 10, p13
Discusses the abstract of the article `Unreliability of the infrared tympanic thermometer in clinical practice: A comparative study with oral mercury and oral electronic thermometers,' by J.G. Modell, C.R. Katholi et al, published in the July 1998 issue of the `South Medical Journal' periodical.
- Enigma No. 1526. Walker, Bob // New Scientist;1/3/2009, Vol. 200 Issue 2688, p17
A quiz concerning the accuracy of the digital thermometers is presented.
