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Using Industrial Platinum Resistance Thermometers for Laboratory Thermometry

Technical Guide 23 (Version 2 – December 2017)

Industrial platinum resistance thermometers, also known as Pt100s or RTDs, are very widely used in industry where accuracies of 1 °C or better are required. With a little care, they can also be used to obtain accuracies of 0.01 °C; this guide explains how.

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