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IN Dr. Parsons's Report on Disinfection by Heat (NATURE, vol. xxxiv. p. 583) occurs the statement: “It appears that there are no tables or formulæ in existence by which the degree of humidity of the air corresponding to a given difference between the wet and dry bulb thermometers at these high temperatures can be ascertained.” There are both tables and formulæ; but the tables are the numerical values for the formulæ, and such tables are to be found in Balfour Stewart on “Heat,” Dixon's “Treatise on Heat,” Blanford's “Meteorologist's Vade-mecum,“ and numerous works on the steam-engine.
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STRACHAN, R. Disinfection by Heat. Nature 35, 7 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/035007a0
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