How much length of mercury will stand atmospheric pressure at sea level if the torricellian tube is tilted by 30° with the vertical?

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You want the vertical height to be the same, as the pressure as you go down increases as the product of density*g*vertical height. So now the tube is tilted by 30°, so vertical height should be 76/cos(30°).
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