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MAY not the observation referred to in NATURE of April 7 (p. 165) be a very simple case of latent heat evolution by condensation when the atmosphere is supersaturated with vapour? I think I have seen the wet bulb registering a temperature higher than the dry bulb; but this explanation seemed at the time so obvious that I made no careful verification of the apparent phenomenon.
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RICHARDSON, H. Anomalous Reading of Hygrometer. Nature 83, 249 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/083249d0
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