McLeod Gage

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McLeod Gage

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A liquid-level vacuum gage in which a known volume of gas, at the pressure to be measured, is compressed by the movement of a liquid column to a much smaller known volume, at which the resulting higher pressure is measured. </dd>
Particular designs are named after the inventors or by various trade names. </dd>

References

This article is based on NASA's Dictionary of Technical Terms for Aerospace Use