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Wet-bulb thermometer   /wɛt-bəlb θərmˈɑmətər/   Listen
Wet-bulb thermometer

noun
1.
A thermometer with a bulb that is covered with moist muslin; used in a psychrometer to measure humidity.






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"Wet-bulb thermometer" Quotes from Famous Books



... glass tube an inch in diameter, filled with moistened stones, and by that means succeeded in reducing the temperature of the current from 18 deg. C. to 15 deg. C.; and when the refrigerated current was directed against a wet-bulb thermometer, it fell to 14 deg. C., thus showing a loss of 7 deg..2 F. of heat. No one can see much of limestone caverns without discovering that the surfaces over which any currents there may be are constrained to pass, present an abundance ...
— Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland • George Forrest Browne



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