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Re: does a siphon work in vacuum?



At 12:21 PM 3/14/2004, Josip Slisko, you wrote:
Dear physics educators:
...
As siphon working in vacuum is an experimentum crucius for this
controversial issue, I wonder if somebody on the list knows something
about any experiment which could corrobate the statement from the above
mentioned textbook:

"Experiments verify that pure liquid can be syphoned in a vacuum..."
(ibid, p. 281).

Best wishes

Josip Slisko


Satellite engineers are concerned with feeding fuel to thrusters from
weightless vacuum tanks. They apparently use capillary feeds rather
than syphons.


Brian Whatcott Altus OK Eureka!