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RATIONAL PSYCHROMETRIC FORMULAE

charts as shown in Table 2 and Fig. 9. This shows that it is permissible as the coefficient instead of , giving

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Fig. 9.—Relation of Grains of Moisture from Government Tables to Grans Actually Contained.

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Fig. 2.—Radiation Error in Wet Bulb of Sling Psychrometer.

This formula will give values of e for all wet and dry-bulb temperatures and all barometric pressures with an error of less than 0.5 per cent, assuming the chosen value of to be correct.