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Measuring Pressure In one observation, the column in a mercury barometer (as is shown in Fig. 14-5a) has a measured height h of 740.35 mm. The tem- perature is –5.0°C, at which temperature the density of mercury p is 1.3608 × 10ʻ kg/m².The free-fall acceleration g at the site of the barom-