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hair hygrometer [1 record]

Record 1 2010-04-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Weather Stations and Meteorological Instruments and Equipment
DEF

An instrument designed to monitor relative humidity by measuring the changes in the length of human hair that accompany humidity variations.

CONT

There are several variations of hygrometers that depend upon a change of physical dimensions of a sensitive element due to the absorption of moisture: (a) The hair hygrometer is one in which the strands of human hair, mounted under tension, expand with increasing relative humidity and contract with decreasing relative humidity.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Stations, instruments et équipements météorologiques
DEF

Hygromètre dont l'organe sensible est constitué par un ou plusieurs cheveux dont la longueur est fonction de l'humidité relative de l'air.

OBS

La graphie «cheveu» semble préférable car l'appareil utilise le principe du «cheveu qui s'allonge en fonction de l'humidité».

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Estaciones, instrumentos y equipos meteorológicos
DEF

Instrumento de medición en el cual el elemento sensible consiste en un haz o haces de cabellos previamente desengrasados de los cuales puede pender un contrapeso, cuyo movimiento vertical resulta proporcional a la humedad relativa del aire.

CONT

Sin embargo el "recuerdo" de este taller que pudieron llevarse a casa fue un higrómetro de cabello que ellos mismos fabricaron con cartulinas, unos tacos de madera y cabellos rubios, tal como se hacía en el siglo XVIII.

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