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What happens when you drink through a straw?

This question points up some key misconceptions about what a vacuum is.So you put a straw in your cup of water. If you look down the straw or could look through it, you would see that the level of water inside and outside the straw are exactly the same. This is because the atmosphere is pushing down on the water inside the straw, and it is pushing down equally hard on the water outside the straw. So the pressures are equal.When you suck on the straw, you are decreasing the pressure in your mouth and lowering the pressure of the air in the top of the straw. When that happens, the force of the atmosphere pushing on the water in the glass is higher than the force of gas inside the straw. The atmosphere forces the liquid up the straw into your mouth. So, in essence, you ARE NOT sucking the liquid into your mouth, the atmosphere is pushing it there.This is easily proved by an experiment. Try drinking water from a straw that is more than 20 meters tall. It won't work. At around 20 meters, the massive column of water inside the straw would be pulled down by gravity, with a force greater than the upward force caused by the atmosphere. Even if you completely evacuate the straw with a high-powered pump the water won't make it up the straw. This is why you can't pump water out of a well that is more than 20 meters deep in the ground. Anything deeper than that and you need to use a compressor to pump air at high pressure down into the well, to force the water out (essentially make the upward pressure higher than the atmosphere alone provides), or revert to the tried and true method using buckets.Of course, a similar principle applies with underground or artesian wells. The water there is already under greater pressure and will flow to the surface if given a path.


What Chianti has straw around the bottle?

Chianti Classico Raffino had the straw around the flask


Which are demonstrated by water moving up a straw?

The power of suction is what is demonstrated by water moving up a straw. When you suck through a straw, the water has nowhere to go but up.


What is origin of straw purchase?

It may harken back to the day when the Israelistes were slaves for the Pharoh and he increased their quota of bricks to make and withheld the important component of straw. I imagine the slaves had to procure the necessary straw through a straw purchase, since they could not purchase the straw for making the bricks. That is my guess until a better one comes along.


How much does a straw weigh?

There are many different straws in the world with different properties. Each straw for example will have a slightly different density.

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What does straw-man mean?

a weak or imaginary opposition


How would you use the word straw man in a sentence?

not sure what you mean - but here's some options just straw - Sam slurped his smoothie through a straw. just man - "I'm a man" Andrew said to the alien both - "Lets make a man out of straw!" Linda said. "Would you like some straw?" the man said. The straw man began to talk.


When was A Man of Straw created?

A Man of Straw was created in 1958.


What is the duration of A Man of Straw?

The duration of A Man of Straw is 2 hours.


What nicknames does Darryl Strawberry go by?

Darryl Strawberry goes by Straw, The Straw Man, and The Straw That Stirs the Drink..


Who plays the straw man in Wizard of Oz?

In the original 1939 film, the straw man (Scarecrow) was played by Ray Bolger.


What rhymes with lawman?

straw man


What are some phrases to do with drowning man?

a drowning man will clutch at straw.


What is the meaning of 'man of straw'?

The "straw man," so-called because it is easily knocked down, is a false or oversimplified version of an opponent's position in a debate.


What actors and actresses appeared in Straw Man - 2009?

The cast of Straw Man - 2009 includes: Axelle Carolyn as The Woman Leslie Simpson as The Lone Man Daniel Tee as The Red Death


Why is a straw man fallacy called a straw man?

The term "straw man" comes from the notion of creating a fake enemy made of straw that is easier to attack or defeat than a real opponent. In the fallacy, a weak or distorted version of an argument is presented to make it easier to knock down, similar to attacking a straw dummy instead of a real person.


In what year was the bendable straw invented?

It was a man named Joseph Friedman, who patented the flexible drinking straw in 1937.