Lynde, Carleton John, b. 1872 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 72
in Fig. 40is a U-shaped tube withmercury in the bend. Theshort closed tube holds acertain volume of gas, con-fined by the mercury. The pressure on this gas is one FlG 4°. - Illustrating Boyles law for pres-sure greater than one atmosphere. atmosphere because the mercury is at the same level in both… … 58 PHYSICS OF THE HOUSEHOLD that the gas has been compressed in the small tube to one halfits first volume. If we make the pressure three atmospheres,the gas is compressed to one third its first volume, and so on.This illustrates Boyles law for increasing pressures.
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