Line 3 was replaced by lines 3-7 |
- The small furnace is based on the "hot-finger" principle. |
+ The small furnace is based on the "hot-finger" principle. It is cooled |
+ by radiation only, and there are no radiation shields. This leads |
+ to a large temperature gradient on the sample. But as there are three |
+ thermocouples (one on the hot finger and two freely mountable), one |
+ can at least have an idea about the gradient. |