Elementary treatise on physics experimental and applied for the use of colleges and schools (1890)
Ganot, A. (Adolphe), 1804-1887, Atkinson, E. (Edmund) · New York : W. Wood · leaf 203
enthe column of mercury encloses no air, and a drop of mercury falls on thetop of the column without enclosing the slightest air-bubble. The height ofthe column then represents the height of the column of mercury in thebarometer ; in other words, it is a barometer whose Torricellian vacuumis the… … 186 On Gases. [205- may be advantageously combined with an exhausting syringe, which first removes the greater part of the air, the exhaustion being then completed as above. The most perfect vacua are obtained by absorbing the residual gas, after the exhaustion has been pushed as far as possible,…
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