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Wet and dry thermometer
[Back to Observing humidity or moisture in the air]

An appropriate table is printed on the instrument on the right hand side. The table is used to calculate humidity from the difference between the wet and dry bulb temperatures at a certain temperature. You can see the wet bulb temperature is lower in the picture.


Document: wetdry.htm
Updated: 20th March 2008

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