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Humidity and Moisture Sensors

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The water content in surrounding air is an important factor for the well-being of humans and animals. The level of comfort is determined by a combination of two factors: relative humidity and ambient temperature. You may be quite comfortable at −30°C (−22°F) in Siberia, where the air is usually very dry in winter, and feel quite miserable in Cleveland near lake Erie at 0°C (+32°F), where air may contain substantial amount of moisture.

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    Naturally, here we disregard other comfort factors, such as economical, cultural, and political; otherwise, I would not call Siberia a comfortable place.

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    Conductivity is measured in units of siemens (S), which is a reciprocal function of specific resistivity. See Sect. 3.5.1 in Chap. 3.

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Fraden, J. (2010). Humidity and Moisture Sensors. In: Handbook of Modern Sensors. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6466-3_13

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