Syphon or Siphon - but the dictionary is wrong anyway. 6

[Artisi]

An interesting news item today in Australia's Sydney Morning Herald.
I wasn't sure where this would be best placed but as this forum is read by many who read and contibute to other forums guess this is as good as any.

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment...oes-unnoticed-for-99-years-20100510-uoh2.html

 

[BigInch]

Water tensile force and, except for the use of "octopuses", not bad. Notice they mention that cavitation is the result of water breaking under tension.

http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/reprint/157/1/257.pdf

Now, is it octopi, octopuses, or octopodes????


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[katmar]

cvg - Thanks for the link confirming the inverted siphon terminology. I followed their link to ordinary (non-inverted) siphons and they confirm the requirements of gravity and atmospheric pressure. See

http://www.answers.com/topic/siphon

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[BigInch]

you're not going to be a happy pilot when your fuel "siphons" out at the top of the loop.

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