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Extra points for thermometry

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Temperature measurement standards rely on highly reproducible states of matter — including eutectic points, as Jonathan Pearce explains.

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  1. Jonathan Pearce is at the Engineering Measurements Division of the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, London TW11 0LW, UK,

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