Geissler pump

Geissler pump

[′gīs·lər ‚pəmp]

(engineering)

A type of air pump that uses the principle of the Torricellian vacuum, and in which the vacuum is produced by the flow of mercury back and forth between a vertically adjustable and a fixed reservoir.

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