Torricelli experiment

Torricelli’s experiment includes a glass tube about a meter long, sealed at one end, filled with mercury, and then inverted into a dish filled with mercury. It shows that the average pressure of the atmosphere at sea level is equal to the pressure of a column of mercury 760 mm tall.

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