Assertion: barometer | /r/CapableOf | use mercury
Facets:
value: to measure weight of the air
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: In order to keep his experiments more secretive, Torricelli deduce d that he could create a much smaller barometer using mercury , a silvery liquid that weighs 14 times as much as water.
text: It’s was one of Galileo’s students by the name of Evangelista Torricelli who, in 1640, first invented the barometer utilizing a long tube, mercury, and a cistern.
text: A barometer uses water, air, or mercury to measure atmospheric pressure (or weight of the air).
text: Barometers using mercury are heavy and fragile.