hair hygrometer
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of hair hygrometer
First recorded in 1875–80
Example Sentences
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Your hair hygrometer may not actually be this accurate, but it can give you a rough approximation of changes in humidity.
From Scientific American • Apr. 19, 2012
How similar are the readings between your hair hygrometer and these precise instruments?
From Scientific American • Apr. 19, 2012
The mean annual temperature of the valleys of Aragua is nearly 25.5 degrees; my hygrometrical observations of the month of February, taking the mean of day and night, gave 71.4 degrees of the hair hygrometer.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Humboldt, Alexander von
"A hair hygrometer," he said to me, waving his wax-like hand over it.
From Lin McLean by Wister, Owen
It is of interest here to record that at the moment of writing a series of experiments are in progress in which an attempt is being made to use a hair hygrometer for this purpose.
From Respiration Calorimeters for Studying the Respiratory Exchange and Energy Transformations of Man by Benedict, Francis Gano
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