| 单词 | passage thermometer | 
| 释义 | > as lemmaspassage thermometer   passage thermometer  n. now historical an instrument for measuring the passage of heat through a substance. ΚΠ 1792    B. Thompson in  Philos. Trans. 		(Royal Soc.)	 82 51  				As this instrument is calculated merely for measuring the passage of heat in the substance whose conducting power is examined, I shall give it the name of passage-thermometer. 1962    S. C. Brown Count Rumford vii. 50  				[Rumford] designed what he called his passage thermometer... The instrument consisted of a thermometer mounted in a tube like a modern test tube. < as lemmas  | 
	
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