Siphon
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The word siphon is used to refer to a wide variety of devices that involve the flow of liquids through tubes. In a narrower sense, the word refers particularly to a tube in an inverted 'U' shape, which causes a liquid to flow upward, above the surface of a reservoir, with no pump, but powered by the fall of the liquid as it flows down the tube under the pull of gravity, then discharging at a level lower than the surface of the reservoir from which it came.
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See also
- 1992 Guadalajara explosions for details of an accident where a plumbing method Trap (plumbing) also known as an inverted siphon was partially responsible for gas explosions.
- Communicating vessels
- Gravity feed
- Jiggle syphon
- Marot jar
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