Materials and Construction
Which of the following is universally employed as the low expansion metal in the bimetallic thermometer, which is an iron-nickel alloy containing 36% nickel and has very low co-efficient of expansion (l/20th of ordinary metals)?

Invar
Alumel
Chromel
Constantan

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Materials and Construction
Nickel as a material of construction

Is paramagnetic below 415° C (its Curie temperature)
Has a body centred cubic (bcc) crystal lattice structure
Dimagnetic
Is used as an alloying element for both ferrous & non-ferrous alloys

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