Associations to the word «Torricellian»

Wiktionary

TORRICELLIAN, adjective. Of or pertaining to Evangelista Torricelli, Italian mathematician and physicist
TORRICELLIAN BAROMETER, noun. A mercury barometer

Wise words

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