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How are a mercury barometer and a aneroid barometer alike and

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How are a mercury barometer and a aneroid barometer alike and different?

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mercury barometer (′mər·kyə·rē bə′räm·əd·ər)

(engineering) An instrument which determines atmospheric pressure by measuring the height of a column of mercury which the atmosphere will support; the mercury is in a glass tube closed at one end and placed, open end down, in a well of mercury. Also known as Torricellian barometer.

aneroid barometer
n.

A barometer in which variations of atmospheric pressure are indicated by the relative bulges of a thin elastic metal disk covering a partially evacuated chamber.

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