-------- In message <f5bcc87f-8fc2-4426-8986-4da42047d...@gmail.com>, Neville Michie wri tes:
>but I could never accept that a vacuum mounted quartz crystal would >be closely enough thermally coupled to whatever was having its >temperature measured. That is precisely why HP could make the three and four digit claim for their quartz thermometers: Compared to resitive temperature sensors, practically no energy is dissipated in/by the crystal. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.