thermometry
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The estimation of temperature by the use of a thermometric apparatus.
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The whole science of heat is founded Thermometry and Calorimetry, and when these operations are understood we may proceed to the third step, which is the investigation of those relations between the thermal and the mechanical properties of substances which form the subject of Thermodynamics.
At temperatures around about 4 °C, water does not have the property (3), and is said to behave anomalously in this respect; thus water cannot be used as a material for this kind of thermometry for temperature ranges near 4 °C.
Consequently, they are suitable thermometric materials, and that is why they were important in the development of thermometry.
In a sense then, radiometric thermometry might be thought of as "universal".
Radiometric thermometry, in contrast, can be only slightly dependent on the constitutive relations of materials.