(Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1964)
Keyte, Freeman K.
The case often arises where a thermometer which has been inserted into a medium of temperature Tw is actually
read in a place where the environment is at temperature t, ≠ Tw. Such a case is the soil thermometer , where the bulb is at Tw and the stem in the air at t; and such a case is the oceanographic reversing thermometer, brought up from a depth-of-reversal (Tw) to the ship laboratory (t). In each case the different cubical expansion coefficients of mercury and glass mean that the stem mercury capillary is taken from the true reading of Tw to a reading of T/ by the action of environmental
change from Tw to T/.
