pyrometer

remote-sensing thermometer used to measure high temperatures
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pyrometer
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pyrometer

Summary

pyrometer ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (88 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • pyrometer is credited with the discovery of William Chandler Roberts-Austen[2].
  • pyrometer's image is recorded as Pyrometer 040824.jpg[3].
  • pyrometer's GND ID is recorded as 4176516-3[4].
  • pyrometer's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85109351[5].
  • pyrometer's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11979700d[6].
  • pyrometer's subclass of is recorded as thermometer[7].
  • pyrometer's Commons category is recorded as Pyrometers[8].
  • pyrometer's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 38331[9].
  • pyrometer's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0kz39[10].
  • pyrometer's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300199983[11].
  • pyrometer's Dewey Decimal Classification is recorded as 681.2[12].
  • pyrometer's PSH ID is recorded as 2348[13].
  • pyrometer's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[14].
  • pyrometer's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[15].
  • pyrometer's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 9[16].
  • pyrometer's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/pyrometer[17].
  • pyrometer's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/optical-pyrometer[18].
  • pyrometer's measures is recorded as temperature[19].
  • pyrometer's BabelNet ID is recorded as 00065438n[20].
  • pyrometer's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 3140850[21].
  • pyrometer's WikiSkripta article ID is recorded as 69827[22].
  • pyrometer's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as pyrometers[23].
  • pyrometer's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as pyrometer[24].
  • pyrometer's Wolfram Language entity code is recorded as Entity["MeasurementDevice", "Pyrometer"][25].
  • pyrometer's Interlingual Index ID is recorded as i57816[26].

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Works and Contributions

pyrometer is credited with the discovery of William Chandler Roberts-Austen[2].

Why It Matters

pyrometer ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (88 views/month).[1] pyrometer has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] pyrometer is known by 24 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . Integrated Authority File. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . thes.bncf.firenze.sbn.it. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . Nuovo soggettario. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . BabelNet. wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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