mc5 - AVMA Take 2

Yes, it's another round of that classic guessing game - Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, Abstract [or any combination thereof]. This effort - '03/'04 should address any queries, but then again, may just serve to confuse and baffle which some might say is the point of the game. Patience, integrity and a decent search engine may be useful ....

CdM

A hologram? No.
Connected with economics? Isn't everything? But, otherwise, No.
Connected with particle physics? Isn't everything? But, otherwise, No.

Lib

Is it temprature dependant?

Rosie

Anything to do with meteorology?

Raak

Was the eponymous person alive before the 20th century?

CdM

Now we are getting somewhere

Temperature dependent? Yes.
To do with meteorology? Yes. *applause*
Before 20th century? Yes.

irach

To do with Torricelli, vacuum and barometry?

Rosie

The Bergeron process?

irach

The Doppler effect?

CdM

I think that is close enough for me to award a mercury-filled baton to irach, even though it was not posed as a guess. The answer on the card was "A Torricelli (or Torricellian) Vacuum".

The subject was prompted by the fact that I almost guessed "vacuum" for Rosie's recent AVMA about a day before it was correctly guessed (no, really, I did), but then rejected it on the grounds that Rosie had claimed no connection to the weather. :-) (That's not intended as a criticism, btw; on reflection I thought that Rosie's answer was probably right.)