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I THINK Dr. Joly has misunderstood the abstract of my lecture. It is impossible not to feel confident that a transparent solid which has a very low coefficient of expansion, which expands very regularly up to 1000° C. and returns very exactly to its original volume when it is re-cooled, which remains unfused at 1500°, and which bears great and sudden changes of temperature with impunity, must, in the absence of any other really satisfactory material, prove very useful in its applications in thermometry.
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SHENSTONE, W. Vitrified Quartz. Nature 64, 126 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/064126a0
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