Isotech Journal of Thermometry Index Volumes 1 10, 1990 to 2000

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1 Isotech Journal of Thermometry Index Volumes 1 10, 1990 to 2000 Welcome to the Isotech Journal of Thermometry Fundamentals of Thermometry Part 1 Temperature Scales Practical Calibration of Thermometers on the ITS-90 Platinum Resistance Thermometers as Interpolation Standards for the ITS-90 Fundamentals of Thermometry Part 2 Fixed Points Standard Platinum Resistance Thermometers calibrations on the ITS-90; how to specify and order International Equivalence of thermometer calibration, testing and certification Improvements in Metrological Apparatus Evaluation of the Gallium Melting Point by a two cell comparison An MS-DOS computer program for the interpolation of the ITS-90 Fundamentals of Thermometry Part 3 Standard Platinum Resistance Thermometers The Platinum Resistance Thermometers of C.H. Meyers (Historic Reprint) Coiled Filament Platinum Resistance Thermometers Open Cell, Sealed Cells, Slim Cells The Heat Pipe and its use in Thermometer Calibration Isothermal Heat Pipes and Pressure Controlled Furnaces Fundamentals of Thermometry Part 4 Standard Thermometers, Bridges and Measurements Cost of Calibration to the ITS-90 at various institutions Uncertainties in Temperature Measurement The Gallium Watchdog (in quality assurance of measurement) New Developments and Discoveries - high temperature platinum resistance thermometers Review: About Words - available metrology vocabularies Fundamentals of Thermometry Part 5 Industrial Platinum Resistance Thermometers

2 Common Errors in Industrial Temperature Measurement I blame the Mother in Law (Evolution of Fluid Bed Calibration Bath) The Water Triple Point and Gallium Point in Secondary Laboratories in Germany Comparison Calibration at the Boiling Point of Nitrogen or Argon A Caution from Phil Metz News of a New Metrology Society (Slovak Metrological Society) Melting Point and Triple Point Measurements of gallium on the IPTS-68 (Historic Reprint) Fundamentals of Thermometry Part 6 Thermistors R vs. T Table for Industrial Resistance Thermometers on ITS-90 Equilibrium Temperatures of Some Secondary Fixed Points on the ITS-90 Metrology Standards in Europe and the prospect of one in America A Technical Guide and Standard Practice for the Qualification and Use of Water Triple Point Cells Review: New mathematical software and a book from the American Institute of Physics Industrial Resistance Thermometers at High Temperatures The Gallium Watchdog in Action (in quality assurance of measurement) Thermoelectric Modules How R(tpw) and R(ga) tell us the condition of high temperature resistance thermometers News of NIST A Technical Guide and Standard Practice for the Realizing the Melting Point of Gallium Fundamentals of Thermometry Part 7 Melting and Freezing Equilibria, phase diagrams, cryoscopic constant Two Notes on Metal Freeze Point Cells A Model for Maintaining Standards to Temperature in a Company with Satellite Operations and we invoiced NAMAS R vs. T Table for Industrial Resistance Thermometers (Revisited) The West European Calibration Cooperation and other accreditation systems

3 The Robert Berry Papers, an introduction Effect of Oxidization on Pr Resistance Thermometers (Historic Reprint) Study of Multilayer Oxidization by Electrical Resistance Technique (Historic Reprint) An Example of Berry's Oxides News: A Thermometry Course at the Van Swinden Laboratory News: an announcement from EAL (European Cooperation for the Accreditation of Laboratories) Do you know where your ice point is tonight? Harold f. Stimson remembered The Measurement of some Thermal Properties of Water (Historic Reprint) High Temperature SPRTs: The Next Generation News: Yamari Industries receives Accreditation in Japan News: Sandia dedicates New Primary Standards Laboratory News: Henry Sostmann receives Wildhack Award from NCSL Thermocouple Thermometry Reproducibility of some Water Triple Point Cells A European Intercomparison of Metal Freeze Point Cells The North American Metrology Cooperation (NORAMET) Traceability - A Concept in Evolution Fundamentals of Thermometry Part 8 Radiation Thermometry High Temperature Standard Resistance Thermometers in Saudi Arabia Surface Temperature Measurement using Contact Thermometry Metal Block Baths: Calibrated or Not? Isotech on the World Wide Web Noise Thermometry Notes from the NAMAS Laboratory

4 NAMAS under a New Management Structure A Proposal to Merge CIPM and CIML, Special Supplement Thermocouples: Traceability, Instability, Inhomogeneity Notes from the NAMAS Laboratory ASTM STD E Standard Guide for the use of Water Triple Point Cells, Critical Review The Jarret-Isotech Water Triple Point Cell The Proposed Merger of CIPM and CIML, Revisited Traceability and Qualification of ITS-90 Fixed Point Cells Thermometric Fixed Points and the development of the Gallium Melting Point Proliferation of Error from an Incorrect Water Triple Point Practical Reference Temperatures using Melting Point Techniques Freezing and Melting Points in Slim Cells Isotech's New Primary Laboratory Isotech Dedicates new Primary Laboratory HT-SPRTs, Origins and Developments The Distributed Nature of EMF in Thermocouples and its Consequences Thermistor Development at the Yellow Springs Instrument Co. Agreement between IPTS-68, ITS-90 and the IEC Algorithm for Industrial PRTs Easy Dry Ice 9.1 Volume 9 No. 1 Trenchant Quotations 9.1 Volume 9 No. 1 Journal Reader Survey 9.1 Volume 9 No. 1 The Education of a Pyrometrist 9.1 Volume 9 No. 1 How Many Digits are Significant in SPRT Coefficients 9.1 Volume 9 No. 1 Propagation of errors form the Water Triple Point 9.1 Volume 9 No. 1 Electrical Noise Reduction in High Temperature Furnaces

5 9.1 Volume 9 No Volume 9 No. 1 Notes from the UKAS (NAMAS) Laboratory CSIRO Handbooks of Temperature Measurement, Special Book Review Erratum Vol 9 No. 1, Thermistor Equation Sostmann-Isotech Gallium Cell: Plateau Duration, Oxygen Effects, Useful Life Expectancy Recalibration Intervals of SPRTs Depths of Immersion Propagation of Error from the ITS-90 Fixed Points New Developments in the Ayries Fluidised Furnace Necrology - Dr. Thomas, Dr. Maas Special Announcement The Northern Temperature Primary Laboratory, A Unique NAMAS Accredited Facility How Low Frequency and DC Electrical Measurements Limit Temperature Calibration Accuracies New Resistance Thermometer and its use in Verifying Very Pure ITS-90 Fixed Points Optimal Realizations of some Fixed Points of the ITS-90 Completely Automated Fixed Points from the ITS-90 for Industry, POTTS Ambient Temperature Measurement in Metrology Thermocouple Audits Water: an article to wet the appetite Index, Chronological, Subject Traceability in Primary, Secondary and Industrial Laboratories

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