Question

What are the disadvantages of using a mercury barometer? How does an aneroid
barometer take care of this?​

Answer 1

Answer:

What are the disadvantages of using a mercury barometer?

answer: The disadvantages of use of mercury in a barometer are : 1) it is bulkier in nature.

1. its density is very high.

2. it has low vapour pressure.

3. its rate of evaporation is not very high.

4. it neither wets nor sticks to glass.

5. its surface is shining and opaque.

how does an aneroid barometer take care of

his?

answer:Answer. Aneroid barometers have a mechanical adjustment for altitude that allows the equivalent sea level pressure to be read directly and without further adjustment if the instrument is not moved to a different altitude.