Name 1
EXPERIMENTO DE LA DENSIDAD DEL MERCURIO Y MANÓMETROS EN EQUILIBRIO
Name 2
EXPERIMENT ON MERCURY’S DENSITY AND MANOMETERS IN EQUILIBRIUM
ID number
001.79.Almadén
Manager / Administrator
Reyes Ávila Bercial, Cerco San Teodoro, s/n, 13400-Almadén (Ciudad Real)
Ownership
Public
Institution
Minas de Almadén y Arrayanes, S.A
Local / Original ID Number
001.001.003.286
Type of Object
Knowledge, social care
Description
Short description
"Explanation of the experiments:
The density of mercury.
Activating the motor, we can see how the container gets filled with water; when the volume of the water is almost 14 times greater than that of mercury, the weight of the water will overcome that of mercury.
Which physical property explains what happened? Density is the amount of mass times the amount of space a body occupies. In the case of mercury, this is 13.69g/cm3, which is almost 14 times more than water, whose density is 1g/cm3.
Manometers in equilibrium.
In one of them, there is only mercury, in the other there are mercury and water. As can be seen, the amount of water needed to balance the manometers is 13.69 times greater than the amount of mercury, due to their different properties."
The density of mercury.
Activating the motor, we can see how the container gets filled with water; when the volume of the water is almost 14 times greater than that of mercury, the weight of the water will overcome that of mercury.
Which physical property explains what happened? Density is the amount of mass times the amount of space a body occupies. In the case of mercury, this is 13.69g/cm3, which is almost 14 times more than water, whose density is 1g/cm3.
Manometers in equilibrium.
In one of them, there is only mercury, in the other there are mercury and water. As can be seen, the amount of water needed to balance the manometers is 13.69 times greater than the amount of mercury, due to their different properties."
Measures
"length: 1.90m
width: 1.10m
height: 2.10m"
width: 1.10m
height: 2.10m"
Materials
Dating
2008
Author / Producer
Minas de Almadén
Illustrations
Original use
Museum and didactic use, interacting with visitors.
Present use
Museum and didactic use, interacting with visitors.
Original location
Mercury Museum (Mining Park)
Present location
Mercury Museum (Mining Park)
STATE OF CONSERVATION
History of conservation:
Present state
good
Necessary activities:
DOCUMENTATION
Addresses /collections/links etc. where further in-depth information is accessible:
www.parqueminerodealmaden.es
Submitted
AYUNTAMIENTO ALMADEN
Submitted by
Alicia Escudero & Águeda Moyano
Date Submitted
26. 4. 2022
Date Edited
Never