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25 Oct 1999 at 2:22 am
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Just saying it another way… A column of water exerts a pressure of .434 pounds per square inch for every foot of height, regardless of diameter.So a column 100 feet high would have a pressure of about 43 pounds per square inch. But that would have to be measured with a pressure gauge. The total weight of the water would be psi times the area of the column, and could be measured with a bathroom scale.
