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bolometer

/boh-lom-i-ter, buh-/US // boʊˈlɒm ɪ tər, bə- //UK // (bəʊˈlɒmɪtə) //

栓子仪,栓塞仪,栓线器,栓线仪

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Physics.

    • : a device for measuring minute amounts of radiant energy by determining the changes of resistance in an electric conductor caused by changes in its temperature.

Examples

  • They may be investigated with the bolometer, an instrument invented by the late Professor Langley.

  • A more careful study has been made by Langley and Very with the bolometer.

  • We have a heat-measuring instrument, the bolometer, which makes the best thermometer seem Early Victorian.

  • Later, Langley reinvestigated the radiation of Pyrophorus and could detect no heating whatever with the bolometer.

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