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The above dream was scaled up in exact portions, as it was her first Her next dream had some variations to weights and measures, plus a longer reaction time... 

Figure 12. Top, carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide emitted in flue gases from batchwise commercial heat treatment of Asplund board at 165 C versus time. In some plants the emission decreased more with time than here. Bottom, laboratory scale measurements at two temperatures. Data of emitted CO and total acids as weight % on dry hardboard. All data according to Nordenskjold and Ostman (3). (Reproduced with permission from ref. 10. Copyright 1989 De Gruyter.)...

Making a measurement of any kind involves comparing the unknown (i.e. the test sample being measured) with a standard. The standard provides the link to the measurement scale being used (e.g. a ruler to measure length, a standard weight to measure mass, a pure chemical substance to determine the amount of a compound present). This is illustrated in Figure 5.1. 

The ITS is an artifact scale, designed to relate temperature measurements made with practicable instruments as closely as possible to the thermodynamic scale. The scale is established and controlled by the International Committee of Weights and Measures (BIPM) through its Consultative Committee on Thermometry, which was established in 1937. The BIPM itself is established to maintain and implement the Treaty of the Meter, to which most nations of the wodd subscribe thus the ITS has not only scientific but legal status in most nations. Within nations, the Temperature Scale is maintained by national standards establishments, eg, in the United States the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), in England the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), and in Germany the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB). 

If there is an undetected variable or flaw in an experiment, it doesn t matter how many times the tests are repeated. Measuring your weight on a broken scale is a good example of a flawed procedure—no matter how many times you step on the scale, the weight you measure will be wrong every time. Similarly, had the Antarctic researchers not been careful to make sure the fish in the experimental and control tests were equally hungry and of the same species, their results and conclusions would have been unreliable. 

Heat and temperature were poorly understood prior to Carnot s analysis of heat engines in 1824. The Carnot cycle became the conceptual foundation for the definition of temperature. This led to the somewhat later work of Lord Kelvin, who proposed the Kelvin scale based upon a consideration of the second law of thermodynamics. This leads to a temperature at which all the thermal motion of the atoms stops, By using this as the zero point or absolute zero and another reference point to determine the size of the degrees, a scale can be defined. The Comit e Consultative of the International Committee of Weights and Measures selected 273.16 K as the value lor the triple point for water. This set the ice-point at 273.15 K. 

Although pharmacists can receive objective patient data from local laboratories or from physicians, it may be decided that it is more convenient for the patient and pharmacist if a laboratory monitoring/screening service is performed at the point of care. Several types of monitors and equipment can be purchased by pharmacists and integrated into their practices. For example, pharmacists who implement a wellness program may purchase a body-fat analyzer, a weight scale, or a monitor that measures the lipid and glucose levels of... 

The establishing, or fixing, of points for temperature scales is done so that anyone, anywhere can replicate a specific temperature to create or verify a thermometer. The specific temperature points become (in effect) the International Prototypes for heat. The General Conference of Weights and Measures accepted the new International Practical Temperature Scale of 1968 (IPTS 1968) with 13 fixed points (see Table 2.29). The new (IPTS 1968) scale was a revision from the IPTS 1948 (which had been amended in 1960). 

Fig. 6. Reduced osmotic pressure vs. reduced concentration, plotted on a log-log scale, measured through osmometry by Noda el al. (1981). Symbols denote various molecular weights of poly(a-methylstyrene) in toluene at 25 C. The solid line has a slope of 1.32.

Fig. 8. Dimensionless reciprocal compressibility vs. reduced concentration plotted on a log-log scale, measured through static light-scattering by Wiltzius et al. (1983). Symbols denote data for various molecular weight polystyrenes in toluene and methyl ethyl ketone at 25°C. The solid curve is the prediction derived from Eq. (21) the proportionality of X to c is fixed by an independent measurement so the curve requires no adjustable parameters.

Despite imaginative suggestions by Isaac Newton and others, the Celsius centigrade system became the international scientific standard, prevailing for about two centuries. However, in 1954 the Celsius scale was replaced (at the 10th General Conference on Weights and Measures) by the. vmg/e-refcrence ideal gas temperature scale described in the text. 

Atoms are so tiny that, until recently, the masses of individual atoms could not be measured directly (Figure 3.7). However, because mass was so important in Dalton s theory, some measure of atomic masses was necessary. Therefore, a relative scale—the atomic mass scale—is used. This scale is sometimes called the atomic weight scale. On this scale, an average of the masses of all the atoms of the naturally occurring mixture of isotopes of a given element is measured relative to the mass of an atom of a standard. 

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