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Practical physics (1922)

Millikan, Robert Andrews, Gale, Henry Gordon · Boston : Ginn and Co. · leaf 208

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yers into which new evaporationmay at once take place. From the behavior of the dry-bulbthermometer, however, it uill be seen that fanning producescooling only when it can thus hasten evaporation. A dry bodyat the temperature of the room is not cooled in the slightestdegree by blowing a current of… … consists of two thermometers, tlie bulb of one of which is dry,while that of the other is kept continually moist by a wickdipping into a vessel of water. Unless the air is saturatedthe wet bulb indicates a lower tempera-ture than the dry one, for the reason thatevaporation is continually taking…

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