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Torricellian tube
Torricellian Tor`ri*cel"li*an, a. Of or pertaining to Torricelli, an Italian philosopher and mathematician, who, in 1643, discovered that the rise of a liquid in a tube, as in the barometer, is due to atmospheric pressure. See Barometer. Torricellian tube, a glass tube thirty or more inches in length, open at the lower end and hermetically sealed at the upper, such as is used in the barometer. Torricellian vacuum (Physics), a vacuum produced by filling with a fluid, as mercury, a tube hermetically closed at one end, and, after immersing the other end in a vessel of the same fluid, allowing the inclosed fluid to descend till it is counterbalanced by the pressure of the atmosphere, as in the barometer. --Hutton.

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- altimeter have perpetuated Torricelli's fame with terms such as "Torricellian tube" and "Torricellian vacuum". The torr, a unit of pressure used in vacuum measurements...
- variation of atmospheric pressure. The empty space in the tube is called the Torricellian vacuum. 760 mmHg = 1 atm 1 atm = 1 013 mbar or hPa 1 mbar or...
- In cave diving, a Torricellian chamber is a cave chamber with an airspace above the water at less than atmospheric pressure. This is formed when the water...
- immersed. The Bourdon tube depth gauge consists of a curved tube made of elastic metal, known as a Bourdon tube. Water pressure on the tube may be on the inside...
- were developed as a result of his theories of atmospheric pressure. A Torricellian vacuum is created by filling with mercury a tall gl**** container closed...
- through a body of water while breathing the ambient air through a shaped tube called a snorkel, usually with swimming goggles or a diving mask, and swimfins...
- Tolkien Tolstoyan – Leo Tolstoy; also Tolstoian Torricellian – Evangelista Torricelli (as in Torricellian chamber) Trotskyist – Leon Trotsky; also Trotskyite...
- turbidity in shallow waters is the turbidity tube. The turbidity tube condenses water in a graded tube which allows determination of turbidity based...
- great experiment on equilibrium in liquids") published in 1648. The Torricellian vacuum found that air pressure is equal to the weight of 30 inches of...
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