Thirty Feet and Rising: Constructing and Using a Water Barometer to Explore Chemical Principles

Journal of Chemical Education

Volumn 80, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1156-1157

  de Grys, Hans ^a  

^a Lakeside School   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; SOLUBILITY; STUDENTS; VAPOR PRESSURE;

WATER BAROMETERS;

BAROMETERS;

EID: 0141955918     PISSN: 00219584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ed080p1156     Document Type: Review

References (3)

1. See MEDLINEplus: Mercury, http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/mercury. html (accessed Jul 2003) or the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, http://www.epa.gov/mercury/index.html (accessed Jul 2003) for more details on mercury toxicity. Inhaled mercury vapor can cause organ failure, nerve damage, or even death. A colleague at Lakeside School still performs this demonstration for his students under carefully controlled conditions, so that the students get to see this interesting procedure while ensuring their physical safety. A video showing construction of a mercury barometer is available in Chemistry Comes Alive, Vol. 2 (Jacobsen, J. J.; Moore, J. W. J. Chem. Educ. 2000, 77, 671).
2. See MEDLINEplus: Mercury, http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/mercury. html (accessed Jul 2003) or the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, http://www.epa.gov/mercury/index.html (accessed Jul 2003) for more details on mercury toxicity. Inhaled mercury vapor can cause organ failure, nerve damage, or even death. A colleague at Lakeside School still performs this demonstration for his students under carefully controlled conditions, so that the students get to see this interesting procedure while ensuring their physical safety. A video showing construction of a mercury barometer is available in Chemistry Comes Alive, Vol. 2 (Jacobsen, J. J.; Moore, J. W. J. Chem. Educ. 2000, 77, 671).
3. As one example, see the discussion from the Chemed-L Listserv, 1998. http://www.optc.com/chemed-l-thread/Thread1849.html (accessed Jul 2003).