On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 10:08 PM, Mark Jurich <jur...@hotmail.com> wrote:
Not sure what you mean by “full-blown calorimetry”, but I can tell you this > (having been assisting Alan rather closely for the last several months). By "full-blown calorimetry," I have in mind mass flow calorimetry, isoperibolic calorimetry, etc. Using a single thermocouple for a cell is something different. That does not to suggest that it cannot be made to work. But I assume your experimental uncertainty is going to be a lot higher. (Was the experimental uncertainty calculated?) We know that the calorimetry changes (it’s a moving target), but we had no > dummy post calibration to check it against. Yes -- I remember seeing comments about the behavior of the thermocouples changing over time. I would imagine that knowing this and not being able to do a post-calibration check on the dummy would disqualify the temperature results. (I recall reading that Alan has specifically *not* claimed excess heat in this case.) Eric
