Orders of magnitude (pressure)

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20 µPa Threshold of human hearing. Air pressure oscillations of this amplitude, at frequencies between 1 and 5 kHz, are the smallest the ear can hear in a noiseless environment.
0.5 Pa Atmospheric pressure on Pluto (1988 figure; very roughly).
1 Pa Pressure exerted by a house fly standing on a postage stamp (roughly).
10 Pa Pressure increase per millimeter of a water column (roughly).1
1 kPa Atmospheric pressure on Mars; ∼1 % of atmospheric sea-level pressure on Earth.
10 kPa Pressure increase per meter of a water column1, or the drop in air pressure when going from earth sea level to 1000 m elevation.
101.325 kPa Standard atmospheric pressure for earth sea level = 1013.25 hPa.
180 to 250 kPa Pressure in an automobile tire.
0.8 to 2 MPa Pressure used in boilers of steam locomotives.
10 MPa Pressure washers force out water at this pressure.
100 MPa Pressure at bottom of Mariana Trench, about 10 km below ocean surface.
10 GPa Pressure at which diamond forms.
100 GPa Theoretical tensile strength of a carbon nanotube (CNT).

1 At earth mean sea level.



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