Steve wrote on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 14:29:11 +0100:


??>> A hygrometer would not do much good. It does not measure
??>> humidity!

SS> Eh? You are either just plain wrong, or are trying to make
SS> a subtle point. If the latter, please enlighten us further

Sorry, you are right and I am wrong. A hygrometer is any
instrument for measuring humidity in vapor. I must have posted
that before I really awoke :-) A hydrometer, what I was
thinking about, measures specific gravity.

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

E-mail, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not