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. 1983 May-Jun;88(3):175–217. doi: 10.6028/jres.088.011

Table 6.

Temperature errors due to the uncertainties in the solid angle correction factors Q2 and Q4 for the 60CoCo(hcp) thermometer. The same parameters were used to determine W(0) and T as those used in table 3. See text for further details.

W(0) T ΔT/Ta
Q2 = 0.9965 δQ2 = ±5 X 10−3
Q4 = 0.9886 δQ4 = ±20 X 10−3
0.014932 1.3 +2.063%
−2.192
0.327535 5.0 ±0.124
0.470108 6.9 ±0.083
0.633327 10.0 ±0.056
0.783152 15.0 ±0.039
0.860948 20.0 ±0.033
0.931038 30.0 ±0.029
0.959508 40.0 ±0.027
0.973528 50.0 ±0.027
a

The largest errors are given, when δQ2 and δQ4 are both positive or negative.