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Atmospheric pressure

 What is atmospheric pressure?

Answer: The force exerted per unit area on the surface of the earth due to the weight of air  column above it is called atmoshpheric pressure.

Its SI unit is N/m² or pascal. Other units are dyne/cm², mm of mercury, bar, torr,

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