Elementary treatise on physics, experimental and applied : for the use of colleges and schools (1906)
Ganot, A. (Adolphe), 1804-1887, Atkinson, Edmund, 1831-1901, Reinold, A. W. (Arnold William), 1843-1921 · New York : Wood · leaf 182
the trough CD is then found to be exactly half theheight of the barometric column. The air whose volume is now doubled isonly under the pressure of half an atmosphere ; for its pressure is equal toatmospheric pressure minus that due to the column CD. If the tube isfurther raised until AC is three…
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