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Traceable Temperatures: An Introduction to Temperature Measurement and Calibration

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This one book covers alot of ground in enought detail to keep most of us happy...I havent found a single source which covers all the main bases this well.

This book not only covers temperature trace ability but also covers subjects like how a temperature sensor's construction will affect the long-term stability of measurements. However information about how the associated measurement equipment is constructed and how it affects the long-term temperature measurement stability is not thoroughly discussed.

Some parts of the trace ability aspect are limited, for example, how error tolerance build up affects the finial specs, which can be claimed.

Good introductory book, easy to read.

I highly recommend this book to anyone involved in or interested in temperature measurement at any level - precision laboratory to industrial production. Over the years I have owned it, this has become one of the most-used thermometry references in my personal library. The authors are with the national primary standards laboratory of New Zealand (equivalent to NIST in the United States) so they are high-level experts in the field. They give very good coverage to all aspects of temperature maesurement with all of the various types of sensors.

Especially valuable is the information on measurement uncertainty contributors associated with measurements. This is very useful information for metrologists, people working in calibration and testing laboratories that are or want to be accreddited to ISO/IEC 17025, and people in any organization that is or wants to be registered to ISO 9001 and therefore should be using ISO 10012 a a guide for their measurement management system.

Wow, this is an amazing book. It covers precision temperature measurement in an authoritative way, and provides background material like measurement science and statistics. This includes by far the best discussion of thermocouples of the many I have read, and I will never feel blissful again when using them. The discussion on platinum resistance thermometry is thorough and most insightful, including excellent coverage of electrical resistance measurement. I am going through the book now and section after section is far exceeding my expectations.

The book also talks about traceability and other tactical issues relating to calibration, accreditation, and so forth. I am not much interested in these things, and can say there is not so much here as to put me off.

The authors (D. R. White [...] speak from a New Zealand perspective, but this rarely seems noticeable, even though things like standards organizations are somewhat different around the world.

This is not a quick intro to every possible way of measureing temperature. It's a deep and authoritative intro to several leading accurate ways.