Improved determination of the Boltzmann constant using a single, fixed-length cylindrical cavity

Metrologia

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 417-432

  Lin, H ^a   Feng, X J ^a   Gillis, K A ^b   Moldover, M R ^b   Zhang, J T ^a   Sun, J P ^a   Duan, Y Y ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF METROLOGY   (China)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DATA; BOLTZMANN CONSTANTS; CYLINDRICAL CAVITIES; ISOTOPIC ABUNDANCES; RELATIVE UNCERTAINTY; SECOND ORDERS; STANDARD UNCERTAINTY; WEIGHTED AVERAGES;

ENGINEERING; METALLURGICAL ENGINEERING;

ARGON;

EID: 84885117745     PISSN: 00261394     EISSN: 16817575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0026-1394/50/5/417     Document Type: Article

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