thermometer
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With QGP reaching temperatures of several trillion Kelvins, the challenge was to find a "thermometer" capable of observing it without interference.
From Science Daily
The Scot brought a thermometer to last year’s contest.
“There’s no Republican or Democratic thermometer — red and blue state alike, and countries around the world, are facing this climate-fueled insurance crisis. And California is taking action,” Newsom said in a statement accompanying his order.
From Los Angeles Times
So I’ve been quarantined in a corner of the house, reaching alternately for Tylenol and the thermometer.
From Los Angeles Times
Sunday was one of those cloudless late-summer Dodger Stadium afternoons in which the flags in center field stirred lazily in the slight breeze and the air felt far hotter than the thermometer said.
From Los Angeles Times
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