Answer:
False
Step-by-step explanation:
Torricelli once carried out a tube and mercury experiment to test the scientific claim that nature abhors a vacuum.
In his experiment, he used glassblowers to make a long glass tube which was 4 ft long with a closed end.
He filled the tube with mercury and put his finger over the open end. Thereafter, he turned the tube upside down, dipped the open end in a bowl of mercury, and then removed his finger from the open end. He discovered that the mercury in the tube didn't completely run out as it fell to around 30 inches above the bowl before it stopped.
The gap between the sealed top end of the tube and the top end of the fallen mercury was an empty space which is a vacuum.
The hypothesis that "nature abhors a vacuum" would have implied that the vacuum would have pulled the mercury and held it up in the tube. However, that wasn't the case with his experiment and it proves that nature doesn't abhor a vacuum.
Thus, it is false.
