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Definition of Atmometers
1. atmometer [n] - See also: atmometer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Atmometers
Literary usage of Atmometers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Methods of Practical Hygiene by Karl Bernhard Lehmann (1893)
"If the quantity of water rises by 0'6 grm. the dew-point rises 1°. In our case
the dew-point lies at 11° + - O'D 11+ 0'02, ie. 11° B. atmometers. ..."
2. The Vegetation of a Desert Mountain Range as Conditioned by Climatic Factors by Forrest Shreve (1915)
"In 1908 and 1910 the writer installed series of atmometers at five elevations,
... In 1911 a new series of atmometers was installed at the six rainfall ..."
3. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1918)
"The departure of the hourly evaporation rate of the porous cup atmometers from
the hourly transpiration rate of the alfalfa seems to be due largely (i) to ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1914)
"A comparison of the water loss from white and black atmometers with that from
white pine seedlings under three conditions of shade used gave the following ..."
5. Contributions by Brooklyn Botanic Garden (1917)
"The corrected readings of the two types of atmometers are given in table i, and
are shown ... Figure io shows the evaporation from the white atmometers. ..."
6. The Mechanism of Evolution in Leptinotarsa by William Lawrence Tower, Joseph Kumler Breitenbeecher (1918)
"One of the bell-jars was provided with 8 atmometers, which, ... The second jar
was furnished with 2 atmometers, and the evaporation-rate was greater in this ..."
7. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1917)
"It is pleasing, on this account, that Dr. Livingston is distributing standardized
porous clap cup atmometers, and that the Weather Bureau has adopted a ..."
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