“…These three general references contain all the material needed for a thorough understanding of the optical methods which can be used for temperature measurements based on a change of the refractive index (interferometry), its first derivative (schlieren) or its second derivative (shadowgraph), in a direction normal to the light beam. Degassing and nucleate pool boiling mechanisms were investigated by BEHAR andSEMERIA (1963, 1963a) by means of black-and-white and color schlierentechniques. They used the Toepler system consisting of two lenses and a horizontal linear source.…”