Pyrometer
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pyrometer-173-2100584
title:
Pyrometer
text:
A pyrometer, or radiation thermometer, is a type of remote sensing thermometer used to measure the temperature of distant objects. Various forms of pyrometers have historically existed. In the modern usage, it is a device that from a distance determines the temperature of a surface from the amount of the thermal radiation it emits, a process known as pyrometry, a type of radiometry. The word pyrometer comes from the Greek word for fire, "πῦρ" (pyr), and meter, meaning to measure. The word pyrome
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Type of thermometer sensing radiation
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrometer
date created:
2002-09-06T10:26:21Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T15:59:11Z
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