Wet-bulb temperature

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Wet-bulb temperature is a type of temperature measurement that reflects the physical properties of a system with a mixture of a gas and a vapor, usually air and water vapor.

Wet-bulb temperature is a type of temperature measurement that reflects the physical properties of a system with a mixture of a gas and a vapor, usually air and water vapor.

Wet-bulb temperature can have several technical meanings:

• Thermodynamic wet-bulb temperature: the temperature a volume of air would have if cooled adiabatically to saturation at constant pressure by evaporation of water into it, all latent heat being supplied by the volume of air.
• The temperature read from a wet bulb thermometer. Adiabatic wet-bulb temperature: the temperature a volume of air would have if cooled adiabatically to saturation and then compressed adiabatically to the original pressure in a moist-adiabatic process.

[edit] Also see

• Cold
• Snowmaking guns
• Humidity
• Latent heat
• Evaporation
• Freezing Point / Freeze
• Moisture
• Sublimation
• Water Cycle
• Water
• Atmosphere
• Fog

[edit] Reference

1. Wikipedia see Wet-bulb temperature [1]

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