Performance aspects of gas-operated pressure balances as pressure standards

Metrologia

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 655-660

  Sutton, C M ^a   Fitzgerald, M P ^a  

^a CALLAGHAN INNOVATION   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE PRESSURE; DIFFERENTIAL PRESSURES; GEOMETRIC IMPERFECTION; HARMONIC OSCILLATION; KEY FEATURE; LONG TERM STABILITY; PERFORMANCE ASPECTS; PRESSURE BALANCE; PRESSURE GENERATORS; PRESSURE STANDARDS; PRIMARY STANDARDS; SHORT TERM STABILITY;

GASES; PRECISION BALANCES;

STANDARDS;

EID: 70449846686     PISSN: 00261394     EISSN: 16817575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0026-1394/46/6/007     Document Type: Article

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