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IT is often necessary to maintain an apparatus at a constant temperature. This may be done by immersing it in a circulating liquid maintained at a constant temperature by a thermostat, or by jacketing it with alternate shells of thermally conducting and insulating materials heated to the selected temperature by means of an internal electric heater. These methods have the disadvantages that the thermostatic system makes the apparatus less accessible, the control of the temperature to within a narrow range requires some complication in the whole system, and it is difficult to prevent ‘hunting’.
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LABY, T., HOPPER, V. A Novel Thermostat. Nature 143, 240 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143240a0
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