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n. (plural of thermometer English)
Usage examples of "thermometers".
But the toluene thermometers in use were old and good instruments, so that the observations for this period may also be regarded as perfectly reliable.
On several previous sledge journeys I had made the experience that thermometers are very fragile things.
If later on we should be so unlucky as to lose all our thermometers, we should not be entirely at a loss.
It may be convenient to mention here that on the southern sledge journey we had four thermometers with us.
Wisting had charge of this scientific branch, and I think the feat he achieved in not breaking any thermometers is unparalleled.
The release takes place in the following manner: when all the cylinders have been lowered to the required depths, they are left hanging for a few minutes, so that the thermometers may be set at the right temperature before the column of mercury is broken.
But certain things were wanting even to complete the equipment of an ordinary meteorological station, such as minimum thermometers and the necessary instructions that should have accompanied one or two of the instruments.
Toluene thermometers: Eighteen sling thermometers, divided to degrees.
As has already been stated, minimum thermometers and mercury sling thermometers were wanting.
Of course, all the thermometers had been carefully examined at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, and at Framheim the freezing-point was regularly tested in melting snow.