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Keywords: Thermometer, Bulb, Ambient, Fulker, Bimetallic

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temperature Is the temperature of the cur, commonly used and referred to in weather reports (Brake Fulker 1999)

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An instrument with a sensitive element that measures ambient (moving) air temperature.

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A name given to an ordinary thermometer used to determine the temperature of the air (to distinguish it from the wet bulb).

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Thermometer instrument that measures the amount of heat in the air by the expansion of a liquid in a graduated glass tube with a reservoir bulb at one end, and by use of a bimetallic strip which moves the indicator on a scale when heat causes the two metals to expand at different rates on the other end. Normally used for outdoor temperatures.

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the dry air temperature - relative to the wet bulb temperature - see wet bulb.

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The ambient (surrounding air) temperature taken with a thermometer.

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