column of water in a sentence
Examples
- On Wednesday, with a towering column of water spouting from a replica 1901 derrick, Texans recreated the scene 100 years to the minute after the gusher erupted at Spindletop.
- Hydraulic head can similarly be measured in a column of water using a standpipe piezometer by measuring the height of the water surface in the tube relative to a common datum.
- Scientists frequently use columns of water ( or mercury ) to measure pressure ( manometric pressure measurement ), since for a given fluid, pressure head is proportional to pressure.
- Admittedly it's not very compressible, but even a slight compression and expansion of a 7 mile tall column of water should change the height by a noticeable amount.
- Once the seal is disturbed, the bladder walls instantly spring back to a more rounded shape; the door flies open and a column of water is sucked into the bladder.
- In words, this equation says that as a vertical column of water is squashed, it moves toward the equator; as it is stretched, it moves toward the pole.
- Scientists concluded from evidence that a column of water and foam formed at the surface of the lake, spawning a wave of at least that swept the shore on one side.
- One of these torpedoes hit the side of the tanker with a thud, but without explosion, and a small column of water erupted just forward of the tanker's bridge.
- The device at this time could not be used for quantitative or standardized measurement, and used the temperature of air to expand or contract gas, thereby moving a column of water.
- :: : Sounds right . . . It might also be noted that at a certain height, the weight of the column of water will equal the capillary force holding it up.