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BAROMETRIC LIGHT

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 421 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BAROMETRIC

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LIGHT  , the luminous glow emitted by
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mercury in a
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barometer
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tube when shaken . It was first observed by
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Jean
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Picard, and formed the subject of many experiments at the hands of
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Francis Hawksbee . The latter showed that the Torricellian vacuum was not essential to the phenomenon, for the same glow was apparent when mercury was shaken with
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air only partially rarefied . The glow is an effect of the
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electricity generated by the
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friction of the mercury and the air in the barometer tube .

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