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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
torricellian \tor`ricel"lian\, 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.
1913 webster
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.
1913 webster
see also:
barometer torricellian tube torricellian vacuum
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