Crossword-Solution: THERMOPILE
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| Thermopile | n. | An instrument of extreme sensibility, used to determine slight differences and degrees of heat. It is composed of alternate bars of antimony and bismuth, or any two metals having different capacities for the conduction of heat, connected with an astatic galvanometer, which is very sensibly affected by the electric current induced in the system of bars when exposed even to the feeblest degrees of heat. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “THERMOPILE”
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| Apparatus producing electric energy. | 1 answer |
| Radiant energy measurer | 1 answer |
| an instrument measuring minute changes in temperature | 1 answer |
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Sentences with THERMOPILE (5)
Indeed, the thermopile in the hands of Lockyer has already made palpable the heat of the fixed stars.
This statement is, however, I think, quite within the truth, as to that almost unexplored region discovered by the elder Herschel, which, lying below the red and invisible to the eye, is so compressed by the prism that, though its aggregate heat effects have been studied through the thermopile, it is only by the recent researches of Capt.
Now, the thermopile cannot, of course, discriminate directly between the two portions of the lunar heat; but to some extent it does enable us to do so indirectly, since they vary in quite a different way with the moon's age.
Consequently, if a thermopile be so placed as to receive these various rays, and their energy be measured by its absorption on the face of the pile, each one would be found to heat it, the longer waves more than the shorter ones, simply because the amplitude is greater, but for no other reason, for it is possible, and in certain cases is the fact, that a short wave has as much or more energy than a longer one.
The third or thermopile method is favored by the authors, who prefer a circuit of platinum and an alloy of platinum with ten per cent.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1961–2004).