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Is Ice water a constant temperature?

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scottiebabe over 3 years ago

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  • Andrew J
    Andrew J over 3 years ago +3
    Graphs always make results look rubbish. Look at the slope on that! The accuracy is great though - serendipitously, these were the thermistors I picked for my project. My bet is no, it isn't. I don't…
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    scottiebabe over 3 years ago in reply to Andrew J +3
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  • wolfgangfriedrich
    wolfgangfriedrich over 3 years ago +2
    Ha, I also used ice water as an experiment when road-testing the Pico Datalogger with k-type thermocouples. It was far from constant, but all in plausible range. I did not think about stirring, but noticed…
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    0 Andrew J over 3 years ago

    Graphs always make results look rubbish.  Look at the slope on that!  The accuracy is great though - serendipitously, these were the thermistors I picked for my project.

    My bet is no, it isn't.  I don't see how ice water could remain constant under non-ambient controlled temperatures (i.e. in a temperature controlled enclosure at 0C) because the ice is going to start melting straight away: at best, you can bring ambient water to a base temperature it will start to rise.  What you could measure is (a) with one thermistor, ambient temperature; (b) with second thermistor the rate of temperature change over time.  Plotting the ambient against temperature change by precise time you could probably calculate a rate of change, adjusted for fluctuating ambient.  I'd expect this graph to look like a slewed U: steep left stroke, and shallow right stroke.

    I don't know what it's like in Canada at the moment, but here in the UK it is around 500C ambient so this experiment isn't even feasible for us!!

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    0 scottiebabe over 3 years ago in reply to Andrew J

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    0 Andrew J over 3 years ago in reply to scottiebabe

    Actually there might be something in that if you can tap a hole in the top put in the thermistor and seal it up so the flask can make a proper seal.  You may want a different flask though: destroying a hot pink one can't be worth it!

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    0 Andrew J over 3 years ago in reply to scottiebabe

    Actually there might be something in that if you can tap a hole in the top put in the thermistor and seal it up so the flask can make a proper seal.  You may want a different flask though: destroying a hot pink one can't be worth it!

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