Design, construction and test of mercury thermometric cell in CENAMEP AIP

We present the results of the design, construction, filling and test of thermometric cell, to reproduce the triple point of mercury in the Temperature Laboratory of Centro Nacional de Metrología de Panamá AIP (CENAMEP AIP). This cell will be included in the group of thermometric cells of the laboratory. With this cell CENAMEP-AIP is covering the -39 °C to 660 °C range. This new cell offers the opportunity to reproduce the primary temperature defined by ITS-90 of -38.8344 ° C, and was built with 0.68 kg of mercury ultra-pure certified by the National Institute of Standards and Technology from United States (NIST-EEUU). The reproducibility obtained with thermometric cell of mercury is approximately one thousandth of kelvin (1 mK). This value satisfies according to current laboratory equipment.