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Science 6 March 1964:
Vol. 143. no. 3610, pp. 1031 - 1032
DOI: 10.1126/science.143.3610.1031
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Liquid Film Hygrometer

Robert J. Charlson 1

1 Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle 5

An improved method of humidity measurement based on the dielectric constant of a liquid-solid mixture has shown agreement with a simple theory. The hygrometer has shown no measurable hysteresis and has identical time-response characteristics for increasing or decreasing humidity.

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