Video transcript. Voiceover: Three years prior to the making of this painting, Pollock was working on a small easel painting. He had struggled on it for a while, and he decided to take that painting off the easel, place it on the floor, and then pour some paint on the surface to finish it.
Calibrating Thermometers. Calibrating a thermometer is actually a very simple process. It may be necessary to do from. time to time to ensure accuracy. The following instructions should help you. Dial Thermometers. By placing the stem of the thermometer in an ice water bath you can check the lower. temperature on the scale. Alternately, by placing the stem of the thermometer in boiling water. you can check the boiling temperature. The ice bath should be 32ÂºF (0Â°C). Use a glass bowl mostly filled with crushed ice and water; a.
The precision or resolution of a thermometer is simply to what fraction of a degree it is possible to make a reading. For high temperature work it may only be possible to measure to the nearest 10 Â°C or more. Clinical thermometers and many electronic thermometers are usually readable to 0.1 Â°C.he first person to put a scale on a thermoscope is variously said to be Francesco Sagredo or Santorio Santorio in about 1611 to 1613. The word thermometer (in its French form) first appeared in 1624 in La Recreation RÃ©crÃ©ation mathematique MathÃ©matique. By, j leurechon who describes one with a scale of. 8 degrees