It Is Possible to Make a Barometer Using a Liquid

question 84

Multiple Choice

It is possible to make a barometer using a liquid other than mercury.What would be the height (in meters) of a column of dichloromethane at a pressure of 0.790 atm,given that 0.790 atm is equal to a 0.600 m column of mercury and the densities of mercury and dichloromethane are 13.5 g/cm³ and 1.33 g/cm³,respectively.

• A) 6.09 m
• B) 0.164 m
• C) 0.0592 m
• D) 0.799 m
• E) 1.25 m

---

Definitions:

Demand Schedule

Shows how much of a given product a household would be willing to buy at different prices for a given time period.

Negative Profits

Financial losses that occur when a business's total costs exceed its total revenues, also known as net loss.

Industry Demand Curve

A graph showing the relationship between the price of a good and the total quantity demanded across the entire market.

Perfectly Competitive

A market scenario characterized by a large number of small firms competing against each other, where each firm makes negligible impact on market prices.