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Pascal's barrel is the name of a hydrostatics experiment allegedly performed by Blaise Pascal in 1646.[1] In the experiment, Pascal inserted a 10-m long (32.8 ft) vertical tube into a barrel filled with water.[2] When water was poured into the vertical tube, Pascal found that the increase in hydrostatic pressure caused the barrel to burst.[1]
The experiment is mentioned nowhere in Pascal's preserved works and it may be apocryphal, attributed to him by 19th-century authors; nevertheless the experiment remains associated with Pascal in many elementary physics textbooks.[3]
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- ^ a b Merriman, Mansfield (1903). Treatise on hydraulics (8 ed.). J. Wiley. p. 22.
- ^ Wine East. 22-23. L & H Photo Journalism. 1994. p. 23.
- ^ see e.g. E. Canon-Tapia in: Thor Thordarson (ed.) Studies in Volcanology, 2009, ISBN 9781862392809, p. 273.
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