What's the difference between humidity and hygrometry?
Humidity
Definition:
(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.
Hygrometry
Definition:
(n.) That branch of physics which relates to the determination of the humidity of bodies, particularly of the atmosphere, with the theory and use of the instruments constructed for this purpose.
Example Sentences:
(1) In flight, thermal comfort is limited by a too-low hygrometry RH = 12%.
(2) Four laboratory Vertebrate species with a predominant activity, either diurnal (Coturnix coturnix japonica), nocturnal (Rattus norvegicus, Mus musculus), or equivocal (Cavia porcellus), present, in usual housing conditions (temperature 20 degrees C, hygrometry 60-70%, acoustical background 70 dB, LD12:12 lighting L = 150 lx), food and water ad libitum, ultradian respiratory (VO2, VCO2) rhythms of short periods.
(3) THYPO was monitored using a thermocouple inserted to the tip of a non-perfused thermode; mSW was measured using resistance hygrometry.
(4) Besides, the evolution of the physicochemical properties and natures of the auto exhaust emission in the gaseous biotope of man under determined conditions of ultraviolet irradiation, temperature, and hygrometry provoke the formation of secondary products such as oxidants and ozone.
(5) Infrared linear dichroism data show that in NHP-DNA complexes the low relative hygrometry conformation of DNA may be modified and that the infrared parameter -1090 is close to that measured for RNA's or DNA-RNA hybrids.
(6) A mathematical model has been developed to anticipate the physiological responses and the thermal state of a naked human under exposure to cold, taking into account his morphological characteristics (skinfold, size, weight) and the environmental conditions (air or water temperature and velocity, barometric pressure and hygrometry).
(7) Sweating rate was measured by resistance hygrometry from six regions.
(8) The same results were obtained in an objective evaluation by gravimetry, hygrometry and colorimetry.
(9) The hygrometry of inspiratory and expiratory air samples reached that of room air, with an absence of saturation during prolonged measurements.
(10) The sweat rate was recorded continuously by capacitance hygrometry in a relatively cool environment (Ta, 23 degrees C).
(11) At an ambient temperature of 34-41 degrees C (rh = 40%) forearm sweat rates were measured by capacitance hygrometry in 9 male volunteers.
(12) Forearm sweat rate was also measured in seven of the subjects by dew point hygrometry.
(13) The number of ergastoplasmic granules in the glandular lobe of the corpora cardiaca is counted in Locusta migratoria migratorioides R. and F. and Schistocerca gregaria Forsk., male adults of different ages, grouped or isolated, having flown or not, and reared in various conditions of hygrometry and temperature.
(14) Chest sweating rate (msw) was measured with resistance hygrometry.
(15) Degree of sweat inhibition was assessed quantitatively in relation to the untreated control side by means of hygrometry and also estimated by a colorimetric method.
(16) Sweat rates on the forearm and on the palm were simultaneously recorded by resistance hygrometry and the mode of sweating in these areas in response to thermal and non-thermal stimuli were compared with each other.
(17) Local sweat rates from both forearms were continuously recorded in a steady state of each exposure, using capacitance hygrometry.
(18) Correlation coefficients were calculated between hypoxia mortality and different parameters: environmental--lighting, temperature, hygrometry, barometric pressure, biological--sex, age, body weight; and chronological--circadian, circannual, pluriannual.
(19) In unanesthetized Sprague Dawleys, SPF, of both sexes, housed in DL12:12 (100lux), at a temperature of 18--23 degrees C and a hygrometry of 60--75%, the measurements of heart frequencies during most part of their life point out a continuous decrease with age and an always higher (40--20 c.min-1) heart rate in females than in males.
(20) Local sweating rate was measured at six sites using resistance hygrometry.