scott wrote:
> See the other thread about Andrew's heating system, it's also useful 
> that 1 bar ~= 10 metres of water for quick estimations.

Yes, that's the only place I've encountered the term.

IIRC, a "bar" was picked as a "bar of mercury", i.e., one atmosphere? Except 
then normalized to nearby SI units?

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