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Letter: Be sensible

Published 22 December 2010

From Collyn Rivers

Feedback ought to have checked the dictionary before ridiculing the “sensible section” of Robert Caillau’s barbecue-thermometer (22 May). I refer you to the full definition in the Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Edition, Volume XIV: “Sensible heat: heat perceived by the touch and measured by the thermometer”.

Broome, Western Australia

Issue no. 2792 published 25 December 2010

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