mercurial barometer

American  

noun

1. mercury barometer.

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Etymology

Origin of mercurial barometer

First recorded in 1685–95

Example Sentences

This action is transmitted to an index hand moving across the dial marked into fractions of inches after the manner of the recognized standard, the mercurial barometer.

From Project Gutenberg

One astronomer has, indeed, gone so far as to calculate that in comparison with our planet Mars is entitled to one-twentieth as much atmosphere as we have, and that the mercurial barometer at "sea level" would run about five and a half inches, as against thirty inches on the earth.

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He placed within the receiver the cistern of a mercurial barometer, the tube of which was made to pass through the central hole in the brass plate, from which the stopper had been removed.

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Signor Giordano carried a mercurial barometer throughout the entire distance, and read it frequently.

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Nevertheless the instrument now about to be described, depending upon similar principles, but scientifically constructed and graduated, is a very useful and valuable substitute for the mercurial barometer.

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