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 traditional method of putting a scale on a liquid-in-glass or liquid-in-metal thermometer was in three stages: 1  Immerse the sensing portion in a stirred mixture of pure ice and water at 1 Standard atmosphere (101.325 kPa; 760.0 mmHg) and mark the point indicated when it had come to thermal equilibrium.