barometer

n=1


a: barometer ~
b: a supersensitive scale

What:

"Air pressure is simply the weight of the column of air above you, and a barometer is like a supersensitive scale for measuring the changing weight"


Useful?
Writer: Paul Gross
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Date: Feb 6 2014 3:49 PM



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