----- Original Message ----
> From: Abd ul-Rahman Lomax <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Wed, June 22, 2011 3:35:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [Vo]:relative humidity
>
> At 12:52 AM 6/22/2011, Harry Veeder wrote:
> > from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_humidity -------------- A common
>misconception Often the notion of air holding water vapor is presented to
>describe the concept of relative humidity.
>
> Stop right there. You are citing Wikipedia as evidence? Wikipedia is worse
> than
>Rossi.... It's worse because it's often right, leading you to think you can
>trust it. I've seen "common misconceptions" there which were actually correct,
>there is a whole article on common misconceptions, which then supposedly
>corrected them, and the corrections were bogus, in a case I studied, someone
>made them up and posted them on a blog, and then some editor incorporated that
>without any understanding of the physics involved. That error stood for a long
>time.
>
>
Are you saying that it is wrong and that your conception of RH is right?
Harry
