Abstract
IN a valuable paper on the “Determination of High Temperatures” (Wied. Ann. 1895, No. 10), Messrs. Holborn and Wien give the results of their observations on the changes in the resistance of platinum wire over a range of 0° to 1600° C. The authors come to the conclusion that the relation between temperature and resistance “cannot be accurately represented by the Callendar and Griffiths formula”; although, on the other hand, they admit that by means of that formula Heycock and Neville have determined a number of melting points which are in good agreement (“die sich in guter Uebereinstimmung mit unsern Werthen befinden”) with the values found by Holborn and Wien when using a thermo-couple standardised by direct comparison with the air-thermometer.
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GRIFFITHS, E. The Measurement of High Temperatures. Nature 53, 389–390 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/053389b0
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