“…in a second horizontal groove in the graphite core located just 3 mm above the top surface of the bar specimen ( (1) Gas-tight InconeI furnace tube, (2) graphite core, (3) x-ray grain in bar specimen, (4) Pt vs Pt-lO% Rh thermocouple, (5) fused quartz thermocouple tube, (6) thermocouple junction, (7) x-ray port heater winding, (8) Mylar window, (9) furnace casing, (10) powdered insulation, (11) incident and diffracted x-rays, (12) aperture in graphite core for x-rays, (13) longitudinal furnace heater, (14) water cooling tubes. men, because changes in the temperature gradients in the entire x-ray specimen region of the furnace were exceedingly small (see below).…”