“…• probes bent in a U shape tip (Jones & Delhaye, 1976;Lee & De Lasa, 1987;Yu & Kim, 1991). Such probes are however extremely fragile and are, to the knowledge of the authors, no longer in use, • probes with melt extremities, giving a spherically shaped tip (Moujaes, 1990;Chabot, Lee, Soria, & De Lasa, 1992;Chabot & De Lasa, 1993).…”