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Following an introductory sketch of the application of the pneumatic infra-red detector to spectrometry, the absolute sensitivity of a pneumatic detector is calculated for the case of an infinitely extended flat heat cell. The calculated r.m.s.e.n.i. is seen to be in good agreement with the experimental results.
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Marcel J. E. Golay (1949) studied this question.
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