Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there. Evangelista Torricelli
Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there.
We have made many glass vessels... with tubes two cubits long. These were filled with mercury, the open end was closed with the finger, and the tubes were then inverted in a vessel where there was mercury. Evangelista Torricelli
We have made many glass vessels... with tubes two cubits long. These were filled with mercury, the open end was closed with the finger, and the tubes were then inverted in a vessel where there was mercury.
I claim that the force which keeps the mercury from falling is external and that the force comes from outside the tube. Evangelista Torricelli
I claim that the force which keeps the mercury from falling is external and that the force comes from outside the tube.
"If somebody opened a bottle of mercury compound two doors down the hall [in the laboratory], I’d get a headache." Arnold Orville Beckman
"If somebody opened a bottle of mercury compound two doors down the hall [in the laboratory], I’d get a headache."
On the surface of the mercury which is in the bowl rests the weight of a column of fifty miles of air. Evangelista Torricelli
On the surface of the mercury which is in the bowl rests the weight of a column of fifty miles of air.
Thus the mercury at 4.2K has entered a new state, which, owing to its particular electrical properties, can be called the state of superconductivity. Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
Thus the mercury at 4.2K has entered a new state, which, owing to its particular electrical properties, can be called the state of superconductivity.