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BAROMETRIC LIGHT

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 421 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BAR-BEC
BAROMETRIC LIGHT , the luminous glow emitted by
mercury
  in a
barometer
 
tube
  when shaken. It was first observed by
Jean
 
Picard
 , and formed the subject of many experiments at the hands of
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 air only partially rarefied. The glow is an effect of the
electricity
  generated by the friction of the mercury and the air in the
barometer
 
tube
 .


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