Definition of Millimeter of mercury

1. Noun. A unit of pressure equal to 0.001316 atmosphere; named after Torricelli.

Exact synonyms: Mm Hg, Torr
Generic synonyms: Pressure Unit

Lexicographical Neighbors of Millimeter Of Mercury

millikatal
millikatals
millilambert
millilamberts
milliliter
milliliters
millilitre
millilitres
milliluces
millilux
milliluxes
millimagnitude
millime
millimes
millimeter
millimeter of mercury (current term)
millimeters
millimetre
millimetres
millimetric
millimho
millimhos
millimicro-
millimicron
millimicrons
millimilli-
millimilligram
millimilligrams
millimolar
millimole

Literary usage of Millimeter of mercury

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ready Reference Tables: Volume I. Conversion Factors of Every Unit Or by Carl Hering (1904)
"0.000 750 068 millimeter of mercury. Apr::. % n-1 000. ... J.311 3659 = 0.1 gram per square centimeter 1.000 0000 = 0.073 551 4 millimeter of mercury. ..."

2. Practical physics by Robert Andrews Millikan, Henry Gordon Gale, Willard R. Pyle (1922)
"So little air is finally left in this high-vacuum chamber that the pressure there may be as low as a hundred-millionth of a millimeter of mercury. ..."

3. Physics: Advanced Course by George Frederick Barker (1893)
"It is a good pump which will give a vacuum of one millimeter of mercury; and a vacuum of 0'05 millimeter has rarely, if ever, been obtained in this way. ..."

4. Liquid Air and the Liquefaction of Gases: A Practical Work Giving the Entire by Thomas O'Conor Sloane (1919)
"... melting ice is expressed by the decimal 0-000126 millimeter of mercury. The reference is to a barometric column of mercury which has a normal length of ..."

5. Ready Reference Tables: Based on the Accurate Legal Standard Values of the by Carl Hering (1904)
"J.181 1595 = 0.011 162 2 millimeter of mercury. Aprx. Й-î-lO 2-047 7504 = 0.031 083 2 pound per ... 0-688 6341 = 0.359 108 millimeter of mercury. Aprx. УЦ . ..."

6. Annual Record of Science and Industry for 1871-78 by Spencer Fullerton Baird (1878)
"Even in the so-called Spren- gel vacuum, as indicated by one-tenth of a millimeter of mercury on the gauge, there is a " unit-fourteen " of molecules ..."

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