Warp wrote:
>   I think you are confusing force (newtons) with pressure (pascals), which
> is force per unit area.

Yes.

>   Things like air pressure are measured in pascals or, more traditionally,
> in bars (1 bar = 100 kilopascals), and sometimes (even though rarely
> nowadays) in atmospheres (1 atm = 101325 Pa).

Ah, thank you. I never really learned what a "bar" was.  So one bar is 
approximately one atmosphere? That sounds about useful.

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