Methods to determine water vapour sorption on mass standards

Metrologia

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 333-339

  Picard, A ^a   Fang, H ^a  

^a PAVILLON DE BRETEUIL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; DEPOSITION; ELLIPSOMETRY; GRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; HYDROCARBONS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TEMPERATURE; VAPORS;

LOCALIZED SURFACE; MASS STANDARDS; WATER THICKNESS; WATER VAPOR ADSORPTION;

SORPTION;

EID: 4043130844     PISSN: 00261394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0026-1394/41/4/016     Document Type: Article

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