Skip to main content

Clothing Test Methods, Edited by L.H. Newburgh (Physiological Tests) and Milton Harris (Physical Tests) of Subcommittee on Clothing of the National Research Council (U.S.A.) (1945) / Chapter Skim
Currently Skimming:

Moisture Loss and Moisture Evaporated (Herrington)
Pages 21-22

The Chapter Skim interface presents what we've algorithmically identified as the most significant single chunk of text within every page in the chapter.
Select key terms on the right to highlight them within pages of the chapter.


From page 21...
... Curves of regain against relative humidity are given in Valko, Kolloid Chemische Grundlagen der Textilveredlung, and in International Critical Tables. For particular fibers, see: cellulose fibers, Ott, Cellulose and Cellulose Derivatives; cotton, Urquhart and Williams, J
Read the entire page →
From page 22...
... The spectral distribution is altered in passage through the atmosphere due to the fact that all wave lengths are not absorbed equally. The atmospheric constituents chiefly responsible for this alteration of the spectrum are ozone, which absorbs the short wave length ultraviolet end of the spectrum, and water vapor which absorbs the long infrared wave lengths.
Read the entire page →

Key Terms

  • solar heat
  • body heat
  • spectral distribution
  • water vapor
  • total heat

  • heat loss
  • clothing surfaces
  • evaporation takes
  • atmospheric conditions
  • temperature gradients

  • wave lengths
  • relative humidity
  • heat lost
  • latent heat
  • intense heat

  • greatly reduced
  • evaporated x
  • atmospheric constituents
  • length ultraviolet
  • atmosphere due

  • short wave
  • weight loss
  • sorbed equally
  • evaporative cooling
  • field conditions

  • critical tables
  • dust particles
  • international critical
  • estimating accurately
  • visible sweating


    • This material may be derived from roughly machine-read images, and so is provided only to facilitate research.
    More information on Chapter Skim is available.