Temperature-profile detector

Title: Temperature-profile detector

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Temperature profiles at elevated temperature conditions are monitored by use of an elongated device having two conductors spaced by the minimum distance required to normally maintain an open circuit between them. The melting point of one conductor is selected at the elevated temperature being detected, while the melting point of the other is higher. As the preselected temperature is reached, liquid metal will flow between the conductors creating short circuits which are detectable as to location.

Issue Date:: 1981-01-29

OSTI Identifier:: 5505970

Application Number:: ON: DE82004456

Assignee:: Dept. of Energy

DOE Contract Number:: AC06-76RL01830

Resource Type:: Patent

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION; THERMOMETERS; LIQUID METALS; MELTING POINTS; ELEMENTS; FLUIDS; LIQUIDS; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; METALS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; 440300* - Miscellaneous Instruments- (-1989)

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