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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
Vocabulary

Humidity VS moisture

0 What is the difference between them? (I have looked up my dict but still cant understand the difference...)0-
  

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0 Generally speaking, humidity is mainly used to talk about the moisture (amount of water) in the air. 0-

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  • 0 Generally speaking, humidity is mainly used to talk about the moisture (amount of water) in the air.
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0 Generally speaking, humidity is mainly used to talk about the moisture (amount of water) in the air. A weather forecaster will usually mention the 'relative humidity' in a weather forecast.02br
00Moisture, on the other hand, is also used when talking about the dampness or wetness of other things.0-
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What is the difference between humidity and moisture?
  1. Amount of water vapour present in atmosphere is known as humidity ( eg, water vapour present in atmospheric gases like oxygen, nitrogen, carbondioxide & some rare gases)
  2. Amount of water present in a material or in a stuff is known as moisture (eg, water present in food items,wood etc)
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amount of water vapor content in the air is the moisture .
amount of vapor lacking in air is humidity.

A glass of ice water in a room with high humidity drips beads of moisture down its sides. Moisture is wetness caused by water; it usually can be seen and felt on an object. Humidity is wetness in the atmosphere caused by evaporated water; it cannot usually be seen or felt except when
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this answer is easily suitable to understand
thanks
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What is the difference between humidity & vapour?
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Humidity is a measurement of vapour content (water in gas state).
Moisture is a related to the content of water (water in liquid state).

There can be high levels of humidity in the air with no moisture.

Once the air reaches saturation (The level at which it cant absorve any more water in gas state, aka 100% humidity or dew point - which is a combination of temperature and pre
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This answer is more easy to understand.
Thank.
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I have 65% humitity in my basement at 60 degrees farenheight. My moisture content of my cherry wood is between 8-10%. I would have thought the mc would be higher, whats the reason? Thanks
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AnonymousI have 65% humitity in my basement at 60 degrees farenheight. My moisture content of my cherry wood is between 8-10%. I would have thought the mc would be higher, whats the reason? Thanks
As a professional it sounds to me as you describing not a very well finished or unfinished basement? Am I correct?
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