5. Summary

You must have realized that thermal methods are extremely versatile as far as their applications are concerned. It is applied in industries as diverse as aerospace and pharmaceuticals. It can be used to investigate samples of all kinds of materials-inorganic, organic, plastics, metallic, ceramic and glass.

We have illustrated the application of thermal methods to some, but not all, of these kinds of materials. Summarize this by entering the reference number of the appropriate figure in the text against the corresponding type of material. Where there is no Figure to illustrate the application of thermal methods to a particular material enter a dash (-)

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