Stewart, Balfour, 1828-1887 · Toronto : James Campbell · leaf 50
Fig. 16. that it would if it could; as it is it presses upwardsagainst the surface of the mercury in the vessel withforce sufficient to keep up in the tube a column of 40 SCIENCE PRIMERS. [proierties heavy mercury thirty inches high; but it can do no more—the weight of this mercury pressing…
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