An e-mail from Herman asks about an instrument using thermometers to determine humidity and wants to know what it is. It's called a sling psychrometer and consists of two thermometers fastened onto a ...

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A researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany, has suggested a very simple formula for converting between the relative humidity and the dew point temperature without needing ...