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  1. Electric temperature-measuring device
  2. consisting of a circuit having two wires made
  3. of different metals welded together at their
  4. ends. A current flows in the circuit when the
  5. two junctions are maintained at different
  6. temperatures (Seebeck effect). The
  7. electromotive force generated - measured by a
  8. millivoltmeter - is proportional to the
  9. temperature difference.
  10.