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Perhaps the most serious and least suspected errors arise in temperature measurement. It may be unfortunate that students are introduced to the measurement of water temperatures before any other; water is an excellent heat-transfer medium so that the sensor is in good thermal contact, whereas large errors can arise in measuring the temperature of gases or poorly conducting solids.
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© 1979 Peter Polak
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Polak, P. (1979). Temperature Measurement. In: Systematic Errors in Engineering Experiments. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04216-6_2
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