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 A McLeod gauge isolates a sample of gas and compresses it in a modified mercury

manometer until the pressure is a few mm of mercury. The technique is very slow and
unsuited to continual monitoring, but is capable of good accuracy
Useful range: from around 10−4  torr (roughly 10−2 Pa) to vacuums as high as
10−6 Torr (0.1 mPa)

 Bourdon Gauge: The Bourdon Guage has a coiled tube whose one end is
connected to the system under consideration and other end is sealed. With the
application of the pressure in the tube it straightens up causing deflection of the
sealed end. The sealed end is connected to the indicating needle through a gear and
linkage mechanism. The deflection of the sealed end results in movement of the
needle which moves on a calibrated dial. Bourdon gauges can be used to measure a
wide range of pressures.
Useful range: from around 1 torr to vacuums as high as 10^7 torr.
Bellows: In gauges intended to sense small pressures or pressure differences, or require
that an absolute pressure be measured, the gear train and needle may be driven by an
enclosed and sealed bellows chamber, called an aneroid, which means "without liquid".In
such gauges indicating needle is driven by the deflection of bellows chamber. This gauge is
suitable for measurement of very low pressures.
Diaphragm
A second type of aneroid gauge uses deflection of a flexible membrane that
separates regions of different pressure. The amount of deflection is repeatable for
known pressures so the pressure can be determined by using calibration. The
deformation of a thin diaphragm is dependent on the difference in pressure between
its two faces. The reference face can be open to atmosphere to measure gauge
pressure, open to a second port to measure differential pressure, or can be sealed
against a vacuum or other fixed reference pressure to measure absolute pressure. 
Useful range: above 10−2 Torr ( roughly 1 Pa)
For absolute measurements, welded pressure capsules with diaphragms on either
side are often used.

Spinning rotor gauge: The spinning rotor gauge works by measuring the
amount a rotating ball is slowed by the viscosity of the gas being measured. The ball
is made of steel and is magnetically levitated inside a steel tube closed at one end
and exposed to the gas to be measured at the other. The ball is brought up to speed
(about 2500 rad/s), and the speed measured after switching off the drive, by
electromagnetic transducers.[10] The range of the instrument is 10−5 to 102 Pa (103 Pa
with less accuracy).

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