thermo

• One can calibrate the age of glaciers by identifying layers of ice that record a common event for which the date is known, like fallout from thermo-nuclear bomb testing. —  Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews
• The UC nuclear weapons labs have consistently pioneered the use of plutonium in thermo-nuclear weaponry in the more than six decades since. —  Indybay newswire
• By means of an instrument known as the thermo-electric pile, or thermopile, the various heating power of the whole spectrum, visible and invisible, can be determined Let us look for a moment at these invisible or dark rays. —  Aether and Gravitation
• A certain amount of urinary irritation, showing itself sometimes in strangury, sometimes in complete retention, occasionally follows this operation Mr. Smith of King's College, and many other surgeons, treat internal piles by means of an ivory clamp to hold them tight, while they are burned off by the actual cautery or the thermo-cautery at a low red heat. —  A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners
• If the cold junction of the thermo-couple is in a temperature of 100°F., the pointer can be set to this point on the scale, and the readings of the instrument will be correct COMPENSATING LEADS.--By the use of compensating leads, formed of the same material as the thermo-couple, the cold junction can be removed from the head of the thermo-couple to a point 10, 20 or 50 ft. —  The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel

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