Vapor Pressure of Mercury as a Function of Temperature

Description

Data on the relation between temperature in degrees Celsius and vapor pressure of mercury in millimeters (of mercury).

Usage

data(pressure)

Format

A data frame with 19 observations on 2 variables.

[, 1]	temperature	numeric	temperature (deg C)
[, 2]	pressure	numeric	pressure (mm)

Source

Weast, R. C., ed. (1973) Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. CRC Press.

References

McNeil, D. R. (1977) Interactive Data Analysis. New York: Wiley.

Examples

data(pressure)
plot(pressure, xlab = "Temperature (deg C)",
     ylab = "Pressure (mm of Hg)",
     main = "pressure data: Vapor Pressure of Mercury")
plot(pressure, xlab = "Temperature (deg C)",  log = "y",
     ylab = "Pressure (mm of Hg)",
     main = "pressure data: Vapor Pressure of Mercury")