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Thanks for the extremely educational response. I'm now grappling with the concent of "negative pressure". Steve :confused:

Thanks for the reply. If I had a tub of water in a room, and then evacuate the room of air, would gravity not keep the water in the tub, and surface tension not give it a surface? What about a tub of mercury?. Steve = : ^ )

According to http://tinyurl.com/2cfghd5", an Australian physicist has discovered that The Oxford dictionary's definition of "siphon" is incorrect, attributing its effect to atmospheric pressure, rather than gravity, which is what he maintains causes it a siphon work. This seems to me to come...