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Bar (unit)

Bar (unit)

Unit of pressure equal to 100,000 Pa

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The bar is a metric unit of pressure defined as 100000 Pa, though not part of the International System of Units (SI). A pressure of 1 bar is slightly less than the average atmospheric pressure on Earth at sea level. By the barometric formula, 1 bar is roughly the atmospheric pressure on Earth at an altitude of 111 metres at 15 °C.

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