Fashion a simple sling psychrometer and demonstrate its use. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6] Reference
To find the relative humidity by use of wet-and-dry-bulb hygrometer or psychrometer. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
Kurt was at the psychrometer, working on a weather report, when Wiedermann returned. From Wordnik.com. [The Heirs of Babylon]
Relative humidity is often determined using a sling psychrometer or a hair hygrometer. From Wordnik.com. [Atmospheric humidity] Reference
A sling psychrometer is a device that consists of two thermometers joined to a piece of plastic or metal (Figure 2). From Wordnik.com. [Atmospheric humidity] Reference
Most of these people have no idea how to use a sling psychrometer or calculate a dewpoint temp from a wet bulb reading. From Wordnik.com. [Green Alps #1 « Climate Audit] Reference
To use the sling psychrometer, the wick is moistened with clean water and the device is twirled in the air using the handle. From Wordnik.com. [Atmospheric humidity] Reference
Temperature and humidity readings have been collected using a sling psychrometer, a simple device containing two mercury thermometers. From Wordnik.com. [Mount Washington] Reference
Re #202- Most weather stations in the past either used a sling psychrometer or had a piece of equipment called a TMQ-11 to get a dry bulb reading. From Wordnik.com. [Letter to NAS « Climate Audit] Reference
Direct experiments with the Schönbein ozonometer and the psychrometer gave parallel curves; whence the author regards the former as only a crude hygrometer. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881] Reference
Where most unstaffed weather stations have undergone technology upgrades, consistent use of the sling psychrometer has helped provide scientific precision to the Mount Washington climate record. From Wordnik.com. [Mount Washington] Reference
To test the effectiveness of these methods, J. Melikow, of St. Petersburg, has estimated the quantity of moisture in the air of different rooms by means of August's psychrometer, and also tested the different methods of increasing the moisture. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883] Reference
The work in the meteorological station consisted principally in taking two daily observations of Green's mercurial barometer, of the maximum and minimum temperature of the psychrometer, of the direction of the winds and of the clouds and also the amount of rainfall. From Wordnik.com. [Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission] Reference
One set, the convex curves, is for the determination of relative humidity of wet-and-dry-bulb hygrometer or psychrometer; the other, the concave curves, is derived from the vapor pressures and shows the amount of moisture per cubic foot at relative humidities and temperatures when read at the dew-point. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
The humidity of the air was observed both by August's psychrometer and Saussure's hygrometer. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II] Reference
Twelve ordinary standard (psychrometer -) thermometers, divided to fifths of a degree (Centigrade). From Wordnik.com. [The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912 — Volume 2] Reference
Similarly in the building environment, when moisture is identified on a Flir infrared image, an exact reading can be taken by the Extech multi-function moisture meter and psychrometer. From Wordnik.com. [Manufacturingtalk - manufacturing industry news] Reference
Moreover the degree of humidity at the place where there can be a question of setting up a psychrometer and hygrometer during a wintering in the high north, has not the meteorological importance which has often been ascribed to it. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II] Reference
Our knowledge of the hygrometric relations of the Earth's surface has been very materially augmented of late years by the general application of August's psychrometer, framed in accordance with the views of Dalton and Daniell, for determining the relative quantity of vapor, or the. From Wordnik.com. [COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1] Reference
From preliminary experiments with a sling psychrometer it was found that its use was precluded by the space required to successfully use this instrument, the addition of an unknown amount of water to the chamber from the wet bulb, and the difficulties of reading the instrument from without the chamber. From Wordnik.com. [Respiration Calorimeters for Studying the Respiratory Exchange and Energy Transformations of Man] Reference
Figure 2: Sling psychrometer. From Wordnik.com. [Atmospheric humidity] Reference
Hidden inside the psychrometer box?. From Wordnik.com. [The Heirs of Babylon]
Please take the psychrometer away now. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference
A sling psychrometer?. From Wordnik.com. [Mandolin Cafe News] Reference
And don’t forget to sling your psychrometer. From Wordnik.com. [The HO-83 Hygro- thermometer « Climate Audit] Reference
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