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INVAR , an alloy of nickel andSee also: steel, characterized by an extremely small coefficient of thermal expansion; it is specially useful in the construction of pendulums and of See also: geodetic measuring apparatus, in fact, in all See also: mechanical devices where it is an See also: advantage to avoid temperature compensation
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The name was chosen as expressing the invariability of its dimensions with heat
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