Harnessing Humidity with Chilled Mirror Hygrometry

 Harnessing Humidity with Chilled Mirror Hygrometry

by Gerald Schultz, PhD, Sunwise Turn Consulting LLC

Why Measure Humidity

Of all the substances that exist on the planet, water is one of the most anomalous in its behavior, which leads to an outsized impact in general industry, agriculture, and medicine. It is water’s ability to form hydrogen bonds within the context of its low molecular mass and planar symmetry that forms the basis of its impact.1 Ice floats and reflects light, steel corrodes, concrete decrepitates, drugs lose potency, grains rot, life swims in it and is infiltrated by it. Three-fourths of the planet is covered by water, and it comprises a significant component of the Earth’s atmosphere, all of which will affect the rate of warming of the planet. For the above reasons, and more, the measurement and control of water vapor, humidity, is widely practiced.

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