The use of X-ray in the study of the mechanism of crystal growth showed that if the vapour of a substance came in contact with a cold surface, it condensed to form a solid, the structure of which depended on the temperature of the condensing surface. The authors announced recently that ice formed by condensation at low temperatures and pressures also changed form with temperature. Details of the apparatus and the results follow in this paper. 2-Method and Preliminary Work Analysis was carried out by the Hull-Debye-scherrer method, using the K
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A rapid method of estimating the moisture in a sample of wheat is described. This method depends on the effect produced in a specially arranged radio circuit in which an alternating current of high frequency is generated. When a container holding some of the wheat under examination is introduced into the rapidly alternating electric field, a change occurs in the strength of the current which may be measured by an ammeter in the circuit and which may be immediately interpreted as a measure of the moisture content of the wheat.
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