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Buys Ballot's law

the statement that, in the Northern Hemisphere, if a person stands with their back to the wind, the atmospheric pressure is low to the left, high to the right
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Buys Ballot's law

Summary

Buys Ballot's law is a physical law[1]. It draws 276 Wikipedia views per month (physical_law category, ranking #68 of 113).[2]

Key Facts

  • Buys Ballot's law's instance of is recorded as physical law[3].
  • C. H. D. Buys Ballot is named after Buys Ballot's law[4].
  • Buys Ballot's law's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[5].

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Definition and Type

Buys Ballot's law's instance of is recorded as physical law[3].

Origins

C. H. D. Buys Ballot is named after Buys Ballot's law[4].

Why It Matters

Buys Ballot's law draws 276 Wikipedia views per month (physical_law category, ranking #68 of 113).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[6]

Related Entities

C. H. D. Buys Ballot

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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  1. 2d ago · Charp238 · 2026-06-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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    Wikidata description → the statement that, in the Northern Hemisphere, if a person stands with their ba
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