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Re: OT and theory. Limit on siphons

Derek Broughton

2005-09-22, 10:21 am

harry k wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:

^^^^^^
I actually googled "siphon height" - the hazards of having been born in
England...
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> I was ready to agree with Ecnerwal until this.

Don't know why - he's right, and I admitted I'd had my mind changed, just
not by his argument :-)

> Originally I was
> looking at it as not having a 34 ft limit as both the up and down legs
> are water filled thus as the down leg drops it just pulls water over
> the top. But then...
>
> As for the wikipedia ref. Could you post a URL for it? I tried google
> with "siphon height" and got to usual inundation of cites. Couldn't
> locate the Wikipedia one.

It should be the first - but it's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siphon

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derek

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