(n.) Moisture; dampness; a moderate degree of wetness, which is perceptible to the eye or touch; -- used especially of the atmosphere, or of anything which has absorbed moisture from the atmosphere, as clothing.
Example Sentences:
(1) at -35 degrees C and as long as 10 hours at -5 degrees C. However, C. bovis died within 72-96 hours in muscles of cattle carcasses subjected to the activity of the temperatures minus 18-19 degrees C at a relative humidity of 86-90% under conditions of an industrial cold storage plant.
(2) Temperature, relative humidity, and air movement around the package can influence the permeability of the film.
(3) Infrared linear dichroism investigations indicate that the alternating poly[d(A-T)]-poly[d(A-T)], enzymatically synthesized, adopts a lower humidity a well-expressed A* form in which stability is relatively small,i.e., restricted to limited relative humidity.
(4) The influence of salt mixtures consisting of Ca(H2PO4)2, trace elements, CaSO4, CaCO3, Na2CO3, NaCl and K2SO4 in different combinations on the nitrifying power, evolution of carbon dioxide and the total number of bacteria was studied in arid soils (sandy and alluvial) and semi-humid ones (chernozem and rendzina).
(5) We assessed the longitudinal distribution of intra-airway heat and water exchanges and their effects on airway wall temperature by directly measuring respiratory fluctuations in airstream temperature and humidity, as well as airway wall temperature, at multiple sites along the airways of endotracheally intubated dogs.
(6) The structural transitions B leads to A and B leads to C measured as a function of relative humidities were not affected by formation of complexes with both basic polypeptides.
(7) The study was conducted to evaluate the effect of ageing on textiles (17.5 months), air temperature (25-45 degrees C) and relative air humidity (RH) (45-85%) on the CH2O release rate from 6 kinds of drapers and furniture coverings.
(8) In the absence of other factors known to influence sectioning properties, high environmental relative humidity is shown to yield poorly embedded tissue.
(9) At 10% humidity the half-life-time was only 55 min.
(10) The effects of a number of drugs, potassium and calcium ions, and air humidity on mucociliary function were studied in isolated preparations of rats bronchial tree.
(11) Minimum relative humidity and maximum and minimum temperatures on day of evening sample were associated with 1.6 to 5.6% of variability within lactation (range for two breeds) of milk and milk constituent yields and 1.1 to 16.5% of constituent percentages.
(12) The correlation analysis applied showed that the parameters most markedly influencing the grain concentration of most taxa were the temperature and humidity.
(13) A difference density map obtained from data on purple membrane films at 15% relative humidity in 2H2O, and the same sample after complete drying in vacuum, revealed that about eight of these protons belong to four water molecules.
(14) The facility presents uniform fields under controlled temperature and humidity.
(15) Humidity has been postulated as a primary determinant of particle charge during aerosol generation.
(16) At high humidities up to 98%, an increase in bacteria cannot be detected.
(17) Successful colonization and invasion of experimentally inoculated feathers required addition of moisture and elevation of relative humidity within the cultures.
(18) These samples were collected from atmospheres of either analyte generated at 35 degrees-40 degrees C and 80%-90% relative humidity to simulate an exhaled breath sample matrix.
(19) It has been established that the structure of the hormone includes a set of regular helical forms which varies considerably with the humidity and dielectric constant of the medium.
(20) The presence of Daubentonia in southern Madagascar does not demonstrate that this region was markedly more humid or densely forested in the recent past.
Hygrometer
Definition:
(n.) An instrument for measuring the degree of moisture of the atmosphere.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fiber-dimensional hygrometer yielded mean aw values and precision estimates that did not differ significantly from those obtained with the electrical hygrometers for (NH4)2SO4slush, KNO3 slush, sweetened condensed milk, pancake syrup, and cheese spread.
(2) The calibration responses for another electrical hygrometer (Hygrodynamics) were nonlinear.
(3) Then the hair hygrometer is no longer capable of reacting sufficiently to the fluctuation of the relative humidity of the bath.
(4) It consists of a special cylindrical casing into which the sensor of a hair hygrometer has been introduced.
(5) However, the mean aw value for a soy sauce was 0.838 for the electrical hygrometers compared with 0.911 for the fiber-dimensional hygrometer.
(6) The fiber-dimensional hygrometer was affected by a volatile component(s) in the soy sauce that caused an erroneously high aw value.
(7) Average absolute percent difference between predicted and assigned aw values for the linear model ranged from 0.3 to 0.7% for a fiber-dimensional hygrometer (Abbeon) and 3 electrical hygrometers (Beckman, Rotronics, and Weather Measure).
(8) For each of the most commonly used humidifiers inspired gas humidity was measured under routine clinical conditions with an electronic hygrometer.
(9) Proximal airway humidity was measured during mechanical ventilation in 14 infants using an electronic hygrometer.
(10) The hair hygrometer has to be protected inside the device casing against a contamination by the bath or the condensing drycleaning solvent.
(11) Using a precision thermocouple hygrometer, requiring just 5 microliters of sample, the tear osmotic pressures of 6 subjects were monitored throughout their adaptation to rigid contact lenses.
(12) On the basis of the experimental results obtained instructions are given for the employment of hair hygrometers in drycleaning and for the design of the device casing: 1.
(13) Provided that the technical requirements are met, hair hygrometers may also be considered as reliable measuring instruments in the practice of drycleaning.
(14) It could be observed that a malfunction of the hair hygrometer mainly occurred when the hairs fixed in the sensor were moistened by the drycleaning bath or by the drycleaning solvent (perchloroethylene), respectively.
(15) This paper presents the procedures and equations to be utilized for measurement of evaporative water loss (mw), by use of the dew-point hygrometer, in small animals exposed to air containing water vapor in an open-flow system.
(16) During the whole night, 2 local sweating rates on the right and the left sides of the upper chest were continuously recorded from 12 cm2 area capsules using a dew-point hygrometer technique, while applying local thermal clamps, a constant 2 degrees C difference in local skin temperatures being imposed between the two symmetrical skin areas.
(17) A ventilated hygrometer system has been used to study the evaporative water loss (EWL) from the excised wound of rats with and without these dressings.
(18) Pooled estimates of reproducibility (Sx) in the 3 studies were 0.008 for the fiber-dimensional hygrometer and 0.010 for the electrical hygrometers; these values were not significantly different from those reported in the study that verified the current official AOAC method.
(19) In the studies published and discussed in the present paper, the causes for the malfunction of the hair hygrometer, in the device mentioned were determined.
(20) The aim of this study was to compare the variation of electrometric data generated by 4 different instruments (Skicon Hygrometer, 2 CM420 and a CM820 corneometer) in normal and experimentally damaged skin displaying surface roughness.