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bolometer
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n. (context physics English) A sensitive device for detecting and measuring the energy of electromagnetic radiation.
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Bolometer \Bo*lom"e*ter\, n. [Gr. ? a stroke, ray + -meter.] (Physics) An instrument for measuring minute quantities of radiant heat, especially in different parts of the spectrum; -- called also actinic balance , thermic balance . --S. P. Langley. [1913 ...
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n. an instrument that measures heat radiation; extremely sensitive
Wikipedia
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A bolometer is a device for measuring the power of incident electromagnetic radiation via the heating of a material with a temperature-dependent electrical resistance . It was invented in 1878 by the American astronomer Samuel Pierpont Langley .
Usage examples of bolometer.
He kept them all very busy with visual observations, spectra and bolometer readings becoming very excited at the rise in surface temperature detectable over the next few hours, caused, most probably, by the scouring friction of those million-mile winds.
The bolometer showed number three to be too hot and even number four to be tropical.
The first bolometer readings were taken less than fifteen minutes after that flash.
Thermometers, atmospheric drift gauges, barometers, and bolometers were projected through vacuum suction tubes.
Another lab needed help developing microcalorimeters and bolometers based on superconducting thin-films cooled to 0.
The Pride of Orion employs bolometers, able to detect and measure the radiation from objects only a few degrees above absolute zero.
A technological civilization meant astronomy, and astronomy meant sensitive bolometers, whereby even an asteroid—warmer than space—could call attention to itself.
Thermometers, atmospheric drift gauges, barometers, and bolometers were projected through vacuum suction tubes.
Thermometers, atmospheric drift gauges, barometers, and bolometers were projected through vacuum suction tubes.