BILATERAL KEY COMPARISON SIM.T-K6.5 ON HUMIDITY STANDARDS IN THE DEW/FROST-POINT TEMPERATURE RANGE FROM -30 °C TO +20

C W Meyer1, A Solano2

  • 1National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA.

Metrologia
|January 10, 2017
PubMed
Summary

This key comparison evaluated dew/frost point temperature standards between the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Laboratorio Costarricense de Metrología (LACOMET). The study determined the degree of equivalence for humidity measurements.

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