In March, 1961, representatives of the national laboratories of Australia, Canada, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, U.S.S.R., United States, and West Germany, met at the NBS to devise means for reaching international agreement on a temperature scale between 10 and 90 Af.

Before it cycles on again, humidity can build up and make you uncomfortable even though the temperature is still low.

Mars has been observed twice at about 3-cm wave length, and the intensity of the observed radiation is in reasonable agreement with the thermal radiation which might be predicted on the basis of the known temperature of Mars.

This energy transfer depends on the current, the temperature in the arc column, the anode material, and the conditions in the anode sheath.

Simultaneously with the anode surface temperature and voltage measurements pyrometer readings were taken along the cylindrical surface of the carbon anode holder as indicated on figure 2.

The internal energy of an ideal gas depends on temperature only and is independent of pressure or volume.

Some 80 reaction tubes from 13 manifold fillings were illuminated in the temperature range from 40 to 85-degrees in a further endeavor to determine the cause of the irreproducibility and to obtain information on the activation energy and the effect of light intensity.

By comparing reaction cells sealed from the same manifold temperature dependency corresponding to activation energies ranging from 11 to 18 Af was observed while dependence on the first power of the light intensity seemed to be indicated in most cases.

Paper electrophoresis was carried out on the concentrated samples in a Spinco model R cell using barbital buffer, pH 8.6, ionic strength 0.075, at room temperature on Whatman 3MM filter paper.

The survivors emerge on some nice, sunny day in March or April, when the temperature is close to 50-degrees and there is not too much wind.

-- An extensive series of measurements was made on a high-density polyethylene in a torsion pendulum instrument using forced sinusoidal oscillation, free vibration, and creep measurements over the temperature range of Af to 80-degrees-C.

-- The theory of elasticity of Gaussian networks has been developed on a more general basis and the equations of state relating variables of pressure, volume, temperature, stress and strain have been precisely formulated.

As for the night being warm, he would have been comfortable naked on Mount Everest but his water brothers had little tolerance for changes in temperature and pressure ; ;

Even so, half of a given amount of astatine will vaporize in an hour if put on a clean glass surface at room temperature.

After James Prescott Joule had determined the mechanical equivalent of heat, Lord Kelvin approached the question from an entirely different point of view, and in 1848 devised a scale of absolute temperature which was independent of the properties of any particular substance and was based solely on the fundamental laws of thermodynamics.

The average temperature of the universe today is approximately 2. 73 kelvins, based on measurements of cosmic microwave background radiation.

Diesel engines rely on adiabatic heating during their compression stroke to elevate the temperature sufficiently to ignite the fuel.

When the pressure applied on a parcel of air decreases, the air in the parcel is allowed to expand ; as the volume increases, the temperature falls and internal energy decreases.

For an ideal gas, the temperature remains constant because the internal energy only depends on temperature in that case.

# If adiabats and isotherms are graphed severally at regular changes of entropy and temperature, respectively ( like altitude on a contour map ), then as the eye moves towards the axes ( towards the south-west ), it sees the density of isotherms stay constant, but it sees the density of adiabats grow.

The more humid regions have a richer vegetation ; dense forest where the rainfall is greatest and variations of temperature least, conditions found chiefly on the tropical coasts, and in the west African equatorial basin with its extension towards the upper Nile ; and savanna interspersed with trees on the greater part of the plateaus, passing as the desert regions are approached into a scrub vegetation consisting of thorny acacias, etc.

The highest maximum temperature recorded in the ACT was 42. 8 ° C ( 109. 0 ° F ) at Acton on 11 January 1939.

the temperature of our homes is independent of the seasons ; ;

The Bureau is pursuing an active program to provide a temperature scale and thermometer calibration services in the range 1.5 to 20 Af.

Another effect discovered is the large coefficient of thermal diffusion tending to separate nitrogen from the oxygen when temperature differences straddling the nitrogen dissociation region are present.

A study of the hydrogen line profiles indicates that a measurement of these profiles can be used to calculate a temperature for the arc plasma that is reliable to about Af percent.

The fruit is then cooled to 42-degrees-F., a temperature at which it lapses into a sort of dormant state.

This cooling does not change the avocado in any way, it just delays the natural softening of the fruit until a grovelike temperature ( room temperature ) is restored.

If the temperature is controlled properly, the avocado will delay its ripening until needed.

We know now that a 15-degree differential in temperature is the maximum usually desirable, and accurate controls assure the comfort we want.

Control of temperature and humidity is a godsend to the aged and the invalid.

Check the temperature gage and be sure it is working.

The thermostat is important to get your engine up to operating temperature quickly, and to keep it running at its most efficient temperature through the proper circulation of the coolant.

This result suggests a very high temperature at the solid surface of the planet, although there is the possibility that the observed radiation may be a combination of both thermal and non-thermal components and that the observed spectrum is that of a black body merely by coincidence.

The infrared emission could then be assumed to originate at the surface of the moon, while the radio emission originates at some depth beneath the surface, where the temperature variation due to solar radiation is reduced in amplitude and shifted in phase.

The concept of apparent black-body temperature is used to describe the radiation received from the moon and the planets.

The apparent black-body disk temperature is the temperature which must be assumed for the black body in order that the intensity of its radiation should equal that of the observed radiation.

The ratio of the measured antenna temperature change during a drift scan across the moon to the average brightness temperature of the moon over the antenna beam ( assuming that the brightness temperature of the sky is negligible ) was found, by graphical integration of the antenna directivity diagram, to be 0.85.

The measured brightness temperature is a good approximation to the brightness temperature at the center of the lunar disk because of the narrow antenna beam and because the temperature distribution over the central portion of the moon's disk is nearly uniform.

The highest temperature ever recorded in Halifax was 37. 2 ° C ( 99 ° F ) on July 10, 1912, and the lowest was − 29. 4 ° C (− 21 ° F ) on Feb 18, 1922.

Crutzen and Birks showed that smoke injected into the atmosphere by fires in cities, forests and petroleum reserves could prevent up to 99 % of sunlight from reaching the Earth's surface, with major climatic consequences: " The normal dynamic and temperature structure of the atmosphere would therefore change considerably over a large fraction of the Northern Hemisphere, which will probably lead to important changes in land surface temperatures and wind systems.

Harrison's textbook of internal medicine defines a fever as a morning temperature of > 37. 2 ° C (> 98. 9 ° F ) or an evening temperature of > 37. 7 ° C (> 99. 9 ° F ) while the normal daily temperature variation is typically 0. 5 ° C ( 0. 9 ° F ).

The highest recorded temperature is 99 ( 37C ) degrees and the lowest was minus 28 (- 33C ).

The record high temperature is 99 degrees Fahrenheit on August 10, 1981 and the record low is 0 degrees Fahrenheit on December 8, 1972.

For the six SRES marker scenarios, IPCC ( 2007: 7 – 8 ) gave a " best estimate " of global mean temperature increase ( 2090 – 2099 relative to the period 1980 – 99 ) that ranged from 1. 8 ° C to 4. 0 ° C.

Its emissivity, however, at a temperature of about-5 ° C, peak wavelength of about 12 micrometers, is 0. 99.

However, even at a white-hot temperature of 2000 K, 99 % of the energy of the radiation is still in the infrared.

The thermal boundary layer thickness is similarly the distance from the body at which the temperature is 99 % of the temperature found from an inviscid solution.

Keeping dissolved oxygen available at their chosen temperature, investigators found up to 99 percent of total BOD was exerted within 20 days, 90 percent within 10 days, and approximately 68 percent within 5 days.

For the above example, kinetic control may be established with LDA at − 78 ° C, giving 99: 1 selectivity of kinetic: thermodynamic enolate, while thermodynamic control may be established with triphenylmethyllithium at room temperature, giving 10: 90 selectivity.

In one of the many processes that have been developed, the solution is heated to a temperature of 190 – 210 ° F ( 88 – 99 ° C ) for a period ranging between 5 and 45 minutes.

The highest recorded natural temperature in Finland, 37. 2 ° C ( 99. 0 ° F ), was measured at Joensuu Airport in Liperi on July 29, 2010.

Because of that, Delta Pavonis is 22 % brighter than the Sun even though the effective temperature of its outer atmosphere is lower, at 5, 604 K. It has 99. 1 % of the Sun's mass and 122 % of the Sun's radius.

The lance blows 99 % pure oxygen onto the steel and iron, igniting the carbon dissolved in the steel and burning it to form carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide, causing the temperature to rise to about 1700 ° C.

:; Shoot your ( my ) temperature: A round of 18 holes where a given player has a score equal to 98 or 99.

Nuevo Laredo experiences an average high temperature of about 99 ° F ( 37 C ), and an average low of about 75 ° F ( 24 C ) during summer, and of rain per year.

For instance, precise measurements show that the boiling point of VSMOW water under one standard atmosphere of pressure is actually 373. 1339 K ( 99. 9839 ° C ) when adhering strictly to the two-point definition of thermodynamic temperature.

Hence there is actually more hydrogen in a litre of methanol ( 99 grams / litre ) than in a litre of liquid hydrogen, and methanol needs no cryogenic container maintained at a temperature of-253 ° C.

This process operates at a pressure of 30 – 60 atm and a temperature of 150 – 200 ° C and gives a selectivity greater than 99 %.