Mariotten.
/ˈmarɪˌɒt/, U.S. /ˈˌmɛriˈˌɑt/ Physics.
1. Mariotte's law n. = Boyle's law n. Also †law of Mariotte.
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Gay-Lussac's law1827
Boyle's law1839
Mariotte's law1843
Gay-Lussac's law1844
Graham's law1845
Henry's law1848
Avogadro's law1880
Charles's law1884
Paschen's law1903
1843 J. Liebig Familiar Lett. Chem. ii. 12 This was a long time considered to be a law, and known as the law of Marriotte.
1845 E. West tr. C. F. Peschel Elem. Physics I. v. iv. 228 In such a case it is more convenient..to use..a Mariotte's tube.., which being graduated according to Marriotte's [sic] law, will show the amount of pressure.
1870 Nature 31 Mar. 567/2 Near 100°, sulphur dioxide and ammonia depart but little from Mariotte's law.
1898 J. C. P. Aldous Elem. Course Physics 171 (heading) Boyle's (or Marriotte's) law.
1907 Philos. Rev. 16 359 All the enemies of science..proclaimed joyfully that..the principle of the conservation of energy..must be relegated with Mariotte's law to the museum of old errors.
1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. (rev. ed.) II. 313/1 The phenomenon was discovered independently by Edme Mariotte about 1650 and is known in Europe as Mariotte's law.
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a. Mariotte flask n. (also Mariotte's flask) a bottle with an outlet near the bottom and an adjustable glass tube passing through a cork in the neck, which if filled to above the bottom of the tube gives a flow of constant head equal to the height of the bottom of the tube above the outlet.
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Mariotte flask1845
Mariotte tube1845
Mariotte's bottle1870
1845 E. West tr. C. F. Peschel Elem. Physics I. v. iii. 220 On the same principle Mariotte's flask acts.
1930 Ecology 11 292 The paper presents a description of an evaporimeter which maintains a constant water level in the evaporation pan by utilizing the principle of Mariotte's flask.
1974 Nature 26 Apr. 798/1 Continuous flow of fluid..was maintained relatively constant by means of gravity flow from a Mariotte flask.
1993 Water Res. 27 1361 Maximum methanogenic activity of sludges from anaerobic reactors may be determined accurately by using small vials connected to Mariotte flasks with an alkaline fluid.
b. Mariotte's bottle n. (also Mariotte bottle) = Mariotte flask n. at sense 2a.
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Mariotte flask1845
Mariotte tube1845
Mariotte's bottle1870
1870 Nature 14 Apr. 618/2 His apparatus consists of a porous cell united by a thin caoutchouc tube with the air-tube of a Mariotte's bottle.
1930 J. Dougall & W. M. Deans tr. P. P. Ewald Physics Solids & Fluids v. 217 The experiment is conveniently carried out by using the so-called Mariotte's bottle.
1960 F. G. Mann & B. C. Saunders Pract. Org. Chem. (ed. 4) iv. 470 The Mariotte bottle.
1993 Ecology 74 1267 Nutrients were increased in all downstream enclosures by continuously dripping a concentrated nutrient solution..into the stream from a carboy (Mariotte bottle..) on the stream bank.
3. Mariotte tube n. (also Mariotte's tube) a U-tube having one arm short and sealed at the end and the other elongated and open to the air.
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the world > matter > physics > mechanics > force > [noun] > pressure > fluid pressure > instrument
Mariotte flask1845
Mariotte tube1845
Mariotte's bottle1870
1845 E. West tr. C. F. Peschel Elem. Physics I. v. iv. 228 In such a case it is more convenient..to use..a Mariotte's tube.., which being graduated according to Marriotte's [sic] law, will show the amount of pressure.
1898 J. C. P. Aldous Elem. Course Physics 172 (heading) Boyle's (or Mariotte's) tube.
1991 Jrnl. Soil Sci. Soc. Amer. 55 566 By varying the level of the mariotte tube inside the feeder burette, different negative pressure heads can be imposed on a soil sample.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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