Thermometer

‫‪Thermometer‬‬
‫االسم‪ :‬حسان مزهر عداي‬
‫المادة‪ :‬أجهزة قياس‬
‫المرحلة ‪ /‬الفرع‪ :‬الثاني \ تكييف \ صباحي‬
‫المشرف‪ :‬د‪.‬علي داوود‬

Thermometer:
A thermometer is a device that measures temperature or a temperature
gradient (the degree of hotness or coldness of an object). A
thermometer has two important elements:
(1) a temperature sensor (e.g. the bulb of a mercury-in-glass

thermometer or the pyrometric sensor in an infrared thermometer) in
which some change occurs with a change in temperature
(2) some means of converting this change into a numerical value (e.g.
the visible scale that is marked on a mercury-in-glass thermometer or
the digital readout on an infrared model). Thermometers are widely used
in technology and industry to monitor processes, in meteorology, in
medicine, and in scientific research.
Era of precision thermometry:
In 1714, Dutch scientist and inventor Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invented

the first reliable thermometer, using mercury instead of alcohol and
water mixtures. In 1724, he proposed a temperature scale which now
(slightly adjusted) bears his name. He could do this because he
manufactured thermometers, using mercury (which has a
high coefficient of expansion) for the first time, and the quality of his
production could provide a finer scale and greater reproducibility,
leading to its general adoption. In 1742, Anders Celsius (1701–1744)
proposed a scale with zero at the boiling point and 100 degrees at the
freezing point of water,[15] though the scale which now bears his
name has them the other way around.[16] French entomologist René
Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur invented an alcohol thermometer
and, temperature scale in 1730, that ultimately proved to be less reliable
than Fahrenheit's mercury thermometer.
The first physician to use thermometer measurements in clinical
practice was Herman Boerhaave (1668–1738).[17] In 1866, Sir Thomas
Clifford Allbutt (1836–1925) invented a clinical thermometer that
produced a body temperature reading in five minutes as opposed to
twenty.[18] In 1999, Dr. Francesco Pompei of the Exergen
Corporation introduced the world's first temporal artery thermometer, a
non-invasive temperature sensor which scans the forehead in about two
seconds and provides a medically accurate body temperature
Thermometric materials:
There are various kinds of empirical thermometer based on material properties.

Many empirical thermometers rely on the constitutive relation between
pressure, volume and temperature of their thermometric material. For example,
mercury expands when heated.
If it is used for its relation between pressure and volume and temperature, a
thermometric material must have three properties:
(1) Its heating and cooling must be rapid. That is to say, when a quantity of
heat enters or leaves a body of the material, the material must expand or
contract to its final volume or reach its final pressure and must reach its final
temperature with practically no delay; some of the heat that enters can be
considered to change the volume of the body at constant temperature, and is
called the latent heat of expansion at constant temperature; and the rest of it
can be considered to change the temperature of the body at constant volume,
and is called the specific heat at constant volume. Some materials do not have
this property, and take some time to distribute the heat between temperature
and volume change.[30]
(2) Its heating and cooling must be reversible. That is to say, the material must
be able to be heated and cooled indefinitely often by the same increment and
decrement of heat, and still return to its original pressure, volume and
temperature every time. Some plastics do not have this property;[31]
(3) Its heating and cooling must be monotonic.[22][32] That is to say, throughout
the range of temperatures for which it is intended to work,
(a) at a given fixed pressure,
either (i) the volume increases when the temperature increases, or else (ii) the
volume decreases when the temperature increases;
but not (i) for some temperatures and (ii) for others; or
(b) at a given fixed volume,
either (i) the pressure increases when the temperature increases, or else (ii) the
pressure decreases when the temperature increases;
but not (i) for some temperatures and (ii) for others.
Calibration:
Thermometers can be calibrated either by comparing them with other

calibrated thermometers or by checking them against known fixed points on
the temperature scale. The best known of these fixed points are the melting
and boiling points of pure water. (Note that the boiling point of water varies
with pressure, so this must be controlled.)
The traditional way of putting a scale on a liquid-in-glass or liquid-in-metal
thermometer was in three stages:
1. Immerse the sensing portion in a stirred mixture of pure ice and water at
atmospheric pressure and mark the point indicated when it had come to
thermal equilibrium.
2. Immerse the sensing portion in a steam bath at Standard atmospheric
pressure and again mark the point indicated.
3. Divide the distance between these marks into equal portions according
to the temperature scale being used.
Other fixed points used in the past are the body temperature (of a healthy adult
male) which was originally used by Fahrenheit as his upper fixed point (96 °F
(35.6 °C) to be a number divisible by 12) and the lowest temperature given by a
mixture of salt and ice, which was originally the definition of 0 °F
(−17.8 °C).[40] (This is an example of a Frigorific mixture). As body temperature
varies, the Fahrenheit scale was later changed to use an upper fixed point of
boiling water at 212 °F (100 °C).[41]
These have now been replaced by the defining points in the International
Temperature Scale of 1990, though in practice the melting point of water is
more commonly used than its triple point, the latter being more difficult to
manage and thus restricted to critical standard measurement. Nowadays
manufacturers will often use a thermostat bath or solid block where the
temperature is held constant relative to a calibrated thermometer. Other
thermometers to be calibrated are put into the same bath or block and allowed
to come to equilibrium, then the scale marked, or any deviation from the
instrument scale recorded.[42] For many modern devices calibration will be
stating some value to be used in processing an electronic signal to convert it
to a temperature.
Indirect methods of temperature measurement:
Thermal expansion
Utilizing the property of thermal expansion of various phases of
matter.
Pairs of solid metals with different expansion coefficients can be used
for bi-metal mechanical thermometers. Another design using this
principle is Breguet's thermometer.
Some liquids possess relatively high expansion coefficients over a
useful temperature ranges thus forming the basis for
an alcohol or mercury thermometer. Alternative designs using this
principle are the reversing thermometer and Beckmann differential
thermometer.
As with liquids, gases can also be used to form a gas thermometer.
Pressure
Vapour pressure thermometer
Density
Galileo thermometer[46]
Thermochromism
Some compounds exhibit thermochromism at distinct temperature
changes. Thus by tuning the phase transition temperatures for a series
of substances the temperature can be quantified in discrete
increments, a form of digitization. This is the basis for a liquid crystal
thermometer.
Band edge thermometry (BET)
Band edge thermometry (BET) takes advantage of the temperature-
dependence of the band gap of semiconductor materials to provide
very precise optical (i.e. non-contact) temperature
measurements.[47] BET systems require a specialized optical system, as
well as custom data analysis software.[48][49]
Blackbody radiation
All objects above absolute zero emit blackbody radiation for which the
spectra is directly proportional to the temperature. This property is the
basis for a pyrometer or infrared thermometer and thermography. It
has the advantage of remote temperature sensing; it does not require
contact or even close proximity unlike most thermometers. At higher
temperatures, blackbody radiation becomes visible and is described by
the colour temperature. For example a glowing heating element or an
approximation of a star's surface temperature.
Fluorescence
Phosphor thermometry
Optical absorbance spectra
Fiber optical thermometer
Electrical resistance
Resistance thermometer which use materials such as Balco alloy
Thermistor
Coulomb blockade thermometer
Electrical potential
Thermocouples are useful over a wide temperature ranges from
cryogenic temperatures to over 1000°C, but typically have an error of
±0.5-1.5°C.
Silicon bandgap temperature sensors are commonly found packaged in
integrated circuits with accompanying ADC and interface such as I2C.
Typically they are specified to work within about —50 to 150°C with
accuracies in the ±0.25 to 1°C range but can be improved
by binning.[50][51]
Electrical resonance
Quartz thermometer
Nuclear magnetic resonance
Chemical shift is temperature dependent. This property is used to
calibrate the thermostat of NMR probes, usually
using methanol or ethylene glycol.[52][53] This can potentially be
problematic for internal standards which are usually assumed to have
a defined chemical shift (e.g 0 ppm for TMS) but in fact exhibit a
temperature dependence.[54]
Magnetic susceptibility
See also: Paramagnetism § Curie's law
Above the Curie temperature, the magnetic susceptibility of a
paramagnetic material exhibits an inverse temperature dependence.
This phenomenon is the basis of a magnetic cryometer.[55][56]
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1. Knake, Maria (April 2011). "The Anatomy of a Liquid-in-Glass Thermometer". AASHTO

re:source, formerly AMRL (aashtoresource.org). Retrieved 4 August 2018. For decades
mercury thermometers were a mainstay in many testing laboratories. If used properly
and calibrated correctly, certain types of mercury thermometers can be incredibly
accurate. Mercury thermometers can be used in temperatures ranging from about -38 to
350°C. The use of a mercury-thallium mixture can extend the low-temperature usability of
mercury thermometers to -56°C. (...) Nevertheless, few liquids have been found to mimic
the thermometric properties of mercury in repeatability and accuracy of temperature
measurement. Toxic though it may be, when it comes to LiG [Liquid-in-Glass]
thermometers, mercury is still hard to beat.
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‫‪Thermometer‬‬

‫االسم‪ :‬حسان مزهر عداي‬

‫المادة‪ :‬أجهزة قياس‬

‫المرحلة ‪ /‬الفرع‪ :‬الثاني \ تكييف \ صباحي‬

‫المشرف‪ :‬د‪.‬علي داوود‬

(1) a temperature sensor (e.g. the bulb of a mercury-in-glass

In 1714, Dutch scientist and inventor Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit invented

There are various kinds of empirical thermometer based on material properties.

Thermometers can be calibrated either by comparing them with other

1. Knake, Maria (April 2011). "The Anatomy of a Liquid-in-Glass Thermometer". AASHTO

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