Sentence examples for a unit of pressure from inspiring English sources

(A gigapascal is a unit of pressure. A pressure of 35 gigapascals corresponds to a depth of about 560 miles, or 900 kilometers, in the Earth).

Insurance, maintenance and all the 700-bar hydrogen fuel (bar is a unit of pressure) a driver can stuff into its reinforced, high-pressure tank are included in the lease price.

Sir Napier Shaw, (born March 4, 1854, Birmingham, Warwickshire, Eng. died March 23 , 1945 London) English meteorologist whose introduction of the millibar, a unit of measurement of air pressure, and the tephigram, a graphical representation of the first law of thermodynamics as applied to Earth's atmosphere, contributed to the development of modern meteorology.

This has long since come to be a universally recognized and convenient unit of pressure in atmospheric studies.

A "G" is a unit of force or acceleration, not pressure.

Torr An obsolete unit of pressure equal to that exerted by a column of mercury 1mm high at 0°C and standard gravity (1mm Hg); named after Evangelista Torricelli (1608-1647), the inventor of the mercury barometer.

In particular, for a unit of eight parallel vessels with equal pressure drops, but a variety of mean pressures, we found that a single unit was representative of larger domains.

Recall that in 1996, another pioneering company, Netscape now a unit of Time Warner –charged that Microsoft pressured PC makers to use its then-fledgling Web browser, Explorer, over Netscape's Navigator.

Standard atmosphere, unit of pressure, equal to the mean atmospheric pressure at sea level.

Pascal (Pa), unit of pressure in the metre-kilogram-second system.

The pascal, defined as one newton per square metre (1 Pa = 0.00001 bar), is the official SI (Système International d'Unités) unit of pressure.