Negative Pressures and the First Water Siphon Taller than 10.33 Meters.

A siphon is a device that is used to drain a container, with water rising inside a hose in the form of an inverted U and then going down towards a discharge point placed below the initial water level. The siphon is the first of a number of inventions of the ancients documented about 2.000 years ago...

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Main Authors: Francisco Vera, Rodrigo Rivera, Diego Romero-Maltrana, Jaime Villanueva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4824372?pdf=render