Peter Heckert <peter.heck...@arcor.de> wrote: Thermal insulation can be used to avoid heat loss, but because the absolute > temperature was not much above ambient, not much loss is expected. Anyway, > thermal isolation is cheap and would eliminate the influence of ambient air. >
1. Rossi's thermocouple was well insulated. 2. Ambient air has little influence even when you use only a Band Aid to insulate the thermocouple. The water temperature dominates. Perhaps if you had a fan blowing on the thing that would have a measurable effect. - Jed
