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Definition of Standard pressure

1. Noun. A unit of pressure: the pressure that will support a column of mercury 760 mm high at sea level and 0 degrees centigrade.

Medical Definition of Standard pressure

1. The absolute pressure to which gases are referred under standard conditions (STPD), i.e., 760 mm Hg, 760 torr, or 101,325 newtons/m2 (i.e., 101,325 Pa). (05 Mar 2000)

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Literary usage of Standard pressure

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Text Book of the Principles of Physics by Alfred Daniell (1884)
"The general rule is, that a volume of gas measured at the pressure h cm. must be multiplied by — in order to reduce it to the standard pressure. ..."

2. A Text Book of the Principles of Physics by Alfred Daniell (1885)
"... gas to standard pressure—ie, to state what the volume would have been had the atmospheric pressure at the time of measurement been 76 cm. of mercury. ..."

3. A Text Book of the Principles of Physics by Alfred Daniell (1885)
"... gas to standard pressure—ie, to state what the volume would have been had the atmospheric pressure at the time of measurement been 76 cm. of mercury. ..."

4. Scientific Papers by John William Strutt Rayleigh (1903)
"Reduction to standard pressure. The pressure to which the numbers so far given relate is that due to 762-511 mm. of mercury at a temperature of 14'85°f, ..."

5. Laboratory Physics: A Students Manual for Colleges and Scientific Schools by Dayton Clarence Miller (1903)
"The Barye and standard pressure. — The unit of pressure is a pressure of one dyne per square centimeter ; it is called the barye. ..."

6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"It is essential in gasometry to fix upon some standard pressure to which all measurements can be reduced. The height of the standard mercury column commonly ..."

7. A Dictionary of Electrical Words, Terms and Phrases by Edwin James Houston (1903)
"(1) The feeder to which the standard pressure-indicator is connected, and whose pressure controls the pressure at the ends of all the other feeders. ..."

8. A Text-book of Physics by William Watson (1902)
"A standard pressure has therefore been adopted, which is called an atmosphere, or simply //if standard pressure. This pressure is such that it would support ..."

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