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. 1999 Feb 1;104(1):11–46. doi: 10.6028/jres.104.002

Table 2.

Standard uncertainties us×106 from various sources in the re-determination of (TT90)/T. The square root of the sum of the squares (RSS) is calculated twice: first, including Rows 4 and 5, but not Rows 6 and 7; and second, including Rows 6 and 7, but not Rows 4 and 5

  Source 217 K 234 K 253 K 293 K 303 K
Microwave values for [a(T)/a(Tw)]2
  1. Discrepancies among triplets 0.32 0.27 0.25 0.27 0.33
  2. δm(T) calc. from resistivity (0.04×ρ) 0.39 0.25 0.12 0.12 0.18
  3. δm(T) calc.−δm(T) meas. 0.24 0.24 0.24 0.24 0.24

Acoustic (isotherm fits)
  4. Uncertainty of A0(Tw)/a2 1.67 1.67 1.67 1.67 1.67
  5. Uncertainty of A0(T)/a2 2.31 1.85 1.35 1.67 1.43

Acoustic (surface fit)
  6. Uncertainty of A0(Tw)/a2 0.25 0.25 0.25 0.25 0.25
  7. Uncertainty of A0(T)/a2 0.52 0.38 0.36 0.31 0.38

Thermometry
  8. SPRT & bridge repeat. @ Tw (10 μΩ) 0.46 0.43 0.40 0.34 0.33
  9. Difference between calibrations 0.22 0.15 0.10 0.54 0.78
10. Temperature gradient 0.46 0.43 0.40 0.34 0.33
11. Non-uniqueness of ITS-90 0.9 0.0 0.8 0.6 0.0

Additional sources
12. Thermal conductivity (0.3 %) 0.20 0.20 0.20 0.20 0.20
13. Uncertainty of pressure zero 0.21 0.12 0.05 0.03 0.07

14. Isotherm fits: RSS 3.13 2.62 2.40 2.58 2.43

15. Surface fit: RSS 1.42 0.92 1.16 1.11 1.13

16. Isotherm fits: RSS×(T/mK) 0.68 0.61 0.61 0.76 0.74

17. Surface fit: RSS×(T/mK) 0.31 0.22 0.29 0.33 0.34