The NIST Industrial Thermometer Calibration (ITC) Laboratory provides calibrations of industrial thermometers over the range from –196 °C to 550 °C. The different types of thermometers include liquid-in-glass (LiG), thermistors, thermocouples (<200 °C), and industrial platinum resistance thermometers (IPRTs). Calibrations are performed by both comparison with a standard platinum resistance ther...

An automatic, high-resolution analytic system for the quantitative determination of the ultraviolet-absorbing molecular constituents of urine and other body fluids is being developed. This system is comprised of a heated, high-pressure anion-exchange column for the separation step and a continuous-flow ultraviolet spectrophotometer for the detection step. Separation is achieved by elution with ...

Among different types of controlling systems, the ON/OFF digital relative humidity control was used for measuring electrical properties of cashmere fibers to make the ambient relative humidity fixed. To achieve this goal the required hardware and software were designed and fabricated. The electrical resistance of fine and coarse hair cashmere fiber was measured by charge and discharge condenser...

We have developed a general electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) method to measure electrostatic potential at spin labels on proteins to millivolt accuracy. Electrostatic potential is fundamental to energy-transducing proteins like myosin, because molecular energy storage and retrieval is primarily electrostatic. Quantitative analysis of protein electrostatics demands a site-specific spectrosc...

1. Do living organisms possess steady state, or direct current, potential differences? 2. Can these potential differences be measured in such a way as to be free from the usual ambiguities of electrical measurement, i.e., can the determination of potential differences be made independently of resistance changes and current flow? 3. Do these potential differences reflect an unorganized chaos or ...