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Wet-bulb thermometer

noun

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

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... 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