This report provides the details of a dilatoMeter developed in-house to measure thermal expansion from room temperature to 1173 K. The instrument was designed, fabricated and tested for its satisfactory performance by analyzing the thermal expansion properties of several materials up to a maximum temperature of 1123 K . One of the important feature in this design is that, the instrument has been fabricated by using all indigenously available components. The sample loading and initial zero adjustment procedure has been made very simple in this design. The software for furnace temperature programming and control, data collection, data processing and plotting of the graph has also been developed. Provision for carrying out the measurements in vacuum as well as flowing gas have been provided.
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