| 单词 | passage thermometer |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspassage thermometer passage thermometer n. now historical an instrument for measuring the passage of heat through a substance. ΚΠ 1792 B. Thompson in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 82 51 As this instrument is calculated merely for measuring the passage of heat in the substance whose conducting power is examined, I shall give it the name of passage-thermometer. 1962 S. C. Brown Count Rumford vii. 50 [Rumford] designed what he called his passage thermometer... The instrument consisted of a thermometer mounted in a tube like a modern test tube. < as lemmas |
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