Outgassing of water vapour, and its significance in experiments to determine the Boltzmann constant

Metrologia

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  De Podesta, Michael ^a   Sutton, Gavin ^a   Underwood, Robin ^a   Bell, Stephanie ^a   Stevens, Mark ^a   Byrne, Thomas ^a   Josephs Franks, Patrick ^a  

^a NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOLTZMANN CONSTANTS; METAL TUBING; MICROWAVE RESONATORS; PURE GAS; RELATIVE UNCERTAINTY; TRACE MOISTURE SENSORS; WATER VAPOUR;

ACOUSTIC RESONATORS; DEGASSING; MICROWAVE ACOUSTICS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVE SENSORS; MOISTURE CONTROL;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 79551503967     PISSN: 00261394     EISSN: 16817575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0026-1394/48/1/L01     Document Type: Article

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