TORRICELLIAN EXPERIMENT, a famous experiment made by Torricelli, by which he demonstrated the pressure of the atmosphere in opposition to the doctrines of suction, &c. finding that pressure able to support only
truel- a certain length of mercury, or any other fluid, in an in-
1. Experi- verted glass tube. See BAROMETER.
2. Trans- TORSK, or TUSK. See GADUS, ICHTHYOLOGY
3. 438. Index.
4. 47. TORTOISE. See TESTUDO, ERPEETOLOGY Index.