Invar

Invar
/in vahr"/, Trademark.
a brand of iron alloy containing 35.5 percent nickel and having a very low coefficient of expansion at atmospheric temperatures.

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Trademark name for an alloy of iron (64% iron, 36% nickel) that expands very little when heated.

Invar was formerly used for absolute standards of length measurement and is now used for surveying tapes and in watches and various other temperature-sensitive devices. The name expresses the invariability of its dimensions. It was developed by Charles-Édouard Guillaume (1861–1938), winner of the 1920 Nobel Prize for Physics.

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      alloy of iron that expands very little when heated; it contains 64 percent iron and 36 percent nickel. Invar was formerly used for absolute standards of length measurement and is now used for surveying tapes and in watches and various other temperature-sensitive devices. The trademark name was selected by the alloy's inventor, the Swiss physicist Charles-Édouard Guillaume, to express the invariability of its dimensions when heat is applied.

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