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 This Chronotopian invention is occasionally found in use during First One site expeditions, or else on better-equipped airships, used to measure instances of "quantum uncertainty" -- the phenomenon that accompanies areas where magic works more strongly, and technology tends to fail. In abstract, the quantometer consists of one or two redundant devices of differing levels of complexity, expected to react with varying degrees to an increased level of quantum uncertainty -- in theory the way a device for measuring temperature might be made by putting two strips of metal together that expand at different rates with temperature, resulting in the needle bending to one side as temperature rises. The result of the quantometer is not nearly so easy to discern, however, given the inherently random nature of the phenomenon, thus only being of use to specially trained technicians, and even then without great accuracy. Nonetheless, it can serve as an advance warning of an unmarked Forbidden Zone or other phenomenon ... or some devices have even been used as a means of determining altitude in "instrument only" flight conditions.
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