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Force Multiplication
The hydrostatic pressure exerted on a submerged surface in an enclosed container is directly proportional to the height of the fluid that the surface is submerged in. That being said, the pressure exerted by a certain volume of fluid can exceed the weight of the total volume of the fluid itself. 

For example, a long straw extending from the top of a fairly tall building and connects to a flask on the ground can be filled with 1 kilogram worth of water. If the surface of the water, filling the straw and flask, is high enough with respect to the bottom of the fluid filled system, the force of the pressure at the very bottom of the flask can be greater than that of the force of the weight of the water. 

In this example, that means the force the pressure exerts at the very bottom of the system could exceed 1 Nm (kg/ms^2).