Two ultrastable, precision glass-coated thermistors are used— one in contact with the sample gas and the other in contact with the reference gas (such as air in a sealed chamber). The thermistors are mounted so that they are in close proximity to the stainless steel (or Hastelloy®) walls of the sample chamber. The entire transmitter is temperature-controlled, and the thermistors are heated to an elevated temperature in a constant-current Wheatstone bridge. The thermistors lose heat to the walls of the sample chamber at a rate that is proportional to the thermal conductivity of the gas surrounding them. Thus, each thermistor will reach a different equilibrium temperature. The temperature difference between the two thermistors is detected in the Wheatstone bridge, and the resulting bridge voltage is amplified and converted to a linear 4 to 20 mA output proportional to the concentration of one of the constituents of the binary or pseudo binary gas mixture.