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pressure unit comparison table |
Subject | has equivalent | is an acronym for | has base unit | has unit | has definition | has composition | is part of | has symbol | is an instance of |
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atmosphere | 1.013 bars | A unit of pressure. | 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen (with 1% of other gases) by volume | Earth | pressure unit | ||||
bar | An absolute unit of pressure equal to 106 dyn cm-2. | CGS unit | |||||||
pascal | 10-5 bars | Syteme Internationale | m-1·kg·s-2 | N·m-2 | The derived SI unit of pressure. | Pa | named derived SI unit | ||
torr | 1 mm Hg | A unit of pressure. | pressure unit |
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