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MECHANICAL heat switches are becoming of increasing importance in low-temperature calorimetry, and in order to study thermal contact both for this practical application and from interest in the mechanism of heat transfer, we have built the apparatus sketched in Fig. 1. This differs from the apparatus described by Berman1 mainly in the method of applying the load by a screw, and measuring it by strain gauges cemented to the cantilever.
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BERMAN, R., MATE, C. Thermal Contact at Low Temperatures. Nature 182, 1661–1663 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/1821661a0
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