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    from the hair, such as by first soaking the hair in diethyl ether. A psychrometer, or a wet and dry-bulb thermometer, consists of two calibrated thermometers...
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    other than air. A device used to measure humidity of air is called a psychrometer or hygrometer. A humidistat is a humidity-triggered switch, often used...
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    as sling temperature. A psychrometer is a device that includes both a dry-bulb and a wet-bulb thermometer. A sling psychrometer requires manual operation...
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    conditions. The same principle is used to measure the dew point using a sling psychrometer (a more accurate instrument than the human finger). Another primitive...
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    may include thermometers (ordinary, maximum/minimum), a hygrometer, a psychrometer, a dewcell, a barometer, and a thermograph. Stevenson screens may also...
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    (fire that crosses the fireline) and take weather readings using a sling psychrometer or a kestrel typically every hour and relaying them up the chain of command...
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    widely used device for measuring wet- and dry-bulb temperature is a sling psychrometer, which consists of a pair of mercury bulb thermometers, one with a wet...
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    Automated airport weather station Thermodynamic instruments Hygrometer#Psychrometer (wet-and-dry-bulb thermometer) Knake, Maria (April 2011). "The Anatomy...
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    designer Rudolf Hans Bartsch von Sigsfeld (1861–1902), he developed a psychrometer for accurate measurement of atmospheric humidity and temperature. This...
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    Temperature and humidity readings have been collected using a sling psychrometer, a simple device containing two mercury thermometers. Where most unstaffed...
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