Dona Vanderwal
Friday, January 13, 2012
Torricelli vacuum experiment ?
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The air cannot get past the mercury - the air pressure pushes on the mercury and holds it in place - so Toricelli inadvertently invented the barometer. The only thing left in the "empty space" is mercury vapour.
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