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Mercury Barometer


   Weather TermDescription / Definition
   Mercury Barometer An instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure. The instrument contains an evacuated and graduated glass tube in which mercury rises or falls as the pressure of the atmosphere increases or decreases.


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