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Ancient Roman water supply diagram (lemmy.world)

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[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, but the water pipe goes back up meaning that there is near equal pressure on either side of the U-Siphon, right? Kind of negates the siphon, in a sense?

I'm no fluid dynamics expert. Just a casual Joe.

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago

Its a bad diagram, the other side needs to be lower :/