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 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
- Wikipedia see Wet-bulb temperature [1]
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