 | Oscar Milton Stewart - Physics - 1924 - 748 pages
...saturation (see the table on page 296). The scientific term for stating the relative dampness of the air is relative humidity. The relative humidity is defined as the ratio of the absolute humidity to that required to produce saturation. Since the mass of water vapor present in... | |
 | Frank Kreith, Shan K. Wang, Paul Norton - Technology & Engineering - 1999 - 284 pages
...air, ma, or ยป' = mw/Wj = 0.62198/;w/(/^, - /;J (2.4) The relative humidity of moist air, (p, or RH, is defined as the ratio of the mole fraction of water vapor, *w, to the mole fraction of saturated moist air at the same temperature and pressure, xws. Using the... | |
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This is defined as the ratio of the mole fraction of water vapor in the mixture to the mole fraction of water vapor in a... 