Torricellian vacuum
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of Torricellian vacuum
C17: named after E. Torricelli
Example Sentences
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To the average Western mind it is the nearest approach to a Torricellian vacuum of intelligibility that language can pump out of itself.
From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The latter showed that the Torricellian vacuum was not essential to the phenomenon, for the same glow was apparent when mercury was shaken with air only partially rarefied.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various
Being 30 inches long up to the bottom of the expanded portion, or lamp globe, the mercury fell below this and left a Torricellian vacuum there.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 by Various
The vacancy at the summit of the barometer is termed the Torricellian vacuum, and the exhausted receiver of an air pump the Boylean vacuum, in honour of these two philosophers.
From The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation by Erasmus Darwin
In reference to the Torricellian vacuum, he says, 'Perhaps it is hardly necessary for me to state that I find both iron and bismuth in such vacua perfectly obedient to the magnet.
From Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall
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