This issue will be resolved properly with a calibration. I couldn't resist
noodling with the data I now have to come up with an estimate. A very rough
estimate, let me repeat. I would not take this too seriously. This sort of
thing should be measured, not estimated or guess-timated.

The fact that the entire reactor plus Dewar cools down when the pump is
running proves that however much heat the pump adds to the water, the
losses are greater, at least at temperatures 2 or 3 deg C or more over
ambient. I have not found a place to sample a 1 deg C gap. You should be
able to use Newton's law of cooling to figure this out for any temperature
but I find the calculator gives a wide range of coefficients for this data.
There are too many fluctuations and too much noise at lower temperature
differences I think. In some cases it is clear to me the coefficient is
different because there is a lingering source of anomalous heat. That is
another use for the calculator: to look for heat.

- Jed

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