Standard pressure and temperature

[Lawrence C Leung]

Picky, Picky, Picky =-)  !

LL - NY

On Wed, 21 Mar 2001 00:59:45 -0500 Burl Vibert <blur at sympatico.ca>
writes:
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>
>Lawrence C Leung wrote:
>> 
>> The gauge is absolute, so the standard it compares things to is a 
>vacuum.
>> Thus, no pressure at all (relative to a vacuum) is 0.0 bar. 
>Atmospheric
>> pressure at sea level is 1.0 bar, which is the pressure of the
>> surrounding air, caused by the weight of the atmosphere above sea 
>level.
>> 2.0 bar means that the manifold is at 14.7 lbs/in/in (1.0 bar) 
>ABOVE
>> normal atmospheric pressure. It's actually a fairly sizable amount 
>of
>> pressure.
>
>
>Just to be picky,  it's 1.01325 Bar at standard  pressure (14.696
>psi, sea level).   2 Bar absolute is actually 14.312 PSIG at sea
>level.
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>
>Burl Vibert
>1987 5kcstq
>Kingston, Ontario