The unit 'at', the technical atmosphere, was set at 1 at = 10mWS. It is still partly used in the medical environment.īased on the atmospheric pressure, there are other pressure units besides the 'Torr' or 'mmHg' just mentioned, such as 'atm', where 1atm corresponds to a standard atmosphere of 101,325Pa. The pressure unit millimetre of mercury column (mmHg), often expressed in 'Torr', is based on a mercury barometer defined by Evangelista Torricelli. This unit is mainly used in applications related to water pressure measurement for pumps, level, etc. The formula would look like this: Y bar X psi 0. There are also pressure units derived from certain measuring media, for example the millimetre water column, expressed as mmWS in German or mmCE (mm colonne d'eau) or mmWC (mm water column). To convert pound-force per square inchs to bars you simply multiply your pound-force per square inchs by 0.0689476. (for gauge) to psig for relative pressure. To distinguish between absolute and relative pressure, the unit of pressure psi is often replaced by the letters 'a' to psia for absolute pressure or 'g' (for gauge) to psig. 6895Pa or 0.07bar, or 1bar corresponds to approx. Therefore, the pressure unit commonly used there is 'psi', which corresponds to pound-force-per-square-inch. In the Anglo-Saxon world, namely in the USA, the units around pounds and inches are common. The prefix milli is also commonly used with bar for small pressure values: pressures below 1bar are often indicated in mbar (millibar).

Therefore, 'Pa' very often has to be prefixed with hecto (hundred), kilo (thousand) or mega (one million) in order to indicate the pressure value with numbers that are reasonably easy to read. For example, one bar corresponds to 100,000Pa. The disadvantage of Pascal is that the unit corresponds to a very small pressure, which is not commonly used in everyday life. The advantage of pascal is that you do not have to convert this pressure unit when it is used in physical formulae, as these are normally built on the SI base units. One pascal corresponds to the product of the SI base units kg * m * s⁻² or, in derived SI units, N/m². SI stands for Système international d'unités, a system of units for physical quantities that is used worldwide and whose units are prescribed in business and official transactions in many countries. In industrial applications, too, the indication in bar is frequently encountered, for example the pressure in pneumatic systems is often about 6 bar, while in hydraulic systems between 250 and 600bar are measured. 2bar to just under 10bar (for racing bicycles), the pressure at a depth of 10m in water is approx. 1bar, air pressure in the tyres of bicycles and cars from approx. This can be explained, among other things, by the fact that most of the pressures we encounter in everyday life can be expressed in simple numbers in bar: Atmospheric pressure approx. The most widely used unit for expressing pressure worldwide is 'bar'.

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