Temperature propagation through a mercury vapour calibration source and assessment of possible analytical biases caused by measurement of temperature variations

Measurement: Journal of the International Measurement Confederation

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1291-1298

  Brown, Richard J C ^a   Wang, Jian ^a   Brown, Andrew S ^a  

^a NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Bias; Calibration; Mercury vapour; Temperature; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; BIAS; CALIBRATION APPARATUS; CALIBRATION SOURCE; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXTERNAL TEMPERATURE; INHOMOGENEITIES; INTERNAL TEMPERATURE; MEASUREMENT OF TEMPERATURE; MERCURY VAPOUR; MODELLING STUDIES; RESPONSE TIME; TEMPERATURE MEASURING; UNCERTAINTY;

CALIBRATION; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

MERCURY (METAL);

EID: 77956062523     PISSN: 02632241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.measurement.2010.07.004     Document Type: Article

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14. We thank an anonymous referee for this suggestion.