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  2. Pound per square inch - Wikipedia

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    The kilopound per square inch (ksi) is a scaled unit derived from psi, equivalent to a thousand psi (1000 lbf/in 2). ksi are not widely used for gas pressures. They are mostly used in materials science, where the tensile strength of a material is measured as a large number of psi. [4] The conversion in SI units is 1 ksi = 6.895 MPa, or 1 MPa ...

  3. Pressure - Wikipedia

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    Pressure is depth dependent, not volume dependent, so there is a reason that water seeks its own level. Restating this as an energy equation, the energy per unit volume in an ideal, incompressible liquid is constant throughout its vessel. At the surface, gravitational potential energy is large but liquid pressure energy is low. At the bottom of ...

  4. Conversion of units - Wikipedia

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    Conversion of units is the conversion of the unit of measurement in which a quantity is expressed, typically through a multiplicative conversion factor that changes the unit without changing the quantity. This is also often loosely taken to include replacement of a quantity with a corresponding quantity that describes the same physical property.

  5. Bar (unit) - Wikipedia

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    The kilobar, equivalent to 100 MPa, is commonly used in geological systems, particularly in experimental petrology. The abbreviations "bar(a)" and "bara" are sometimes used to indicate absolute pressures, and "bar(g)" and "barg" for gauge pressures. The usage is deprecated but still prevails in the oil industry (often by capitalized "BarG" and ...

  6. Orders of magnitude (pressure) - Wikipedia

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    15.5 Mpa 2,250 psi Primary coolant loop of a pressurized water reactor: 20 MPa 2,900 psi Typical pressure used for hydrogenolysis reactions [70] 21 MPa 3,000 psi Pressure of a typical aluminium scuba tank of pressurized air (210 bar) [71] 21 MPa 3,000 psi Ballistic pressure exerted as high-power bullet strikes a solid bulletproof object ...

  7. Copper units of pressure - Wikipedia

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    SAAMI standards for a given cartridge are expressed in MPa. Although no accurate conversion formulas are possible, for converting between true pressures and crusher indicated pressures, linearised approximation conversion equations do exist over narrow ranges of pressures for estimating piezo pressure readings given crusher pressures.

  8. Barlow's formula - Wikipedia

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    Barlow's formula (called "Kesselformel" [1] in German) relates the internal pressure that a pipe [2] can withstand to its dimensions and the strength of its material. This approximate formula is named after Peter Barlow , an English mathematician .

  9. Chamber pressure - Wikipedia

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    Within firearms, chamber pressure is the pressure exerted by a cartridge case's outside walls on the inside of a firearm's chamber when the cartridge is fired. The SI unit for chamber pressure is the megapascal (MPa), while the American SAAMI uses the pound per square inch (psi, symbol lbf/in 2) and the European CIP uses bar (1 bar is equal to 0.1 MPa).