Question

If a barometer were built using water (d=1.0 g/cm3) instead of mercury (d=13.6 g/cm3), would the column of water be higher than, lower than, or the same as the column of mercury at 1.00 atm? If the level is different, by what factor? Explain.

Answer 1

Mercury is a compound denser than water and when this happen, it stays lower.

So, in this case, water stays higher than mercury because its density is low.

The level is different by a factor of 13.6 times taller.