mercury barometer
Noun
Meaning
barometer that shows pressure by the height of a column of mercury
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Building upon Galileo's notes, he built the first mercury barometer and wrote a convincing argument that the space at the top was a vacuum.
Mercury barometers A mercury barometer has a glass tube closed at one end with an open mercury-filled reservoir at the base.
The mercury barometer stood lower the higher one went.