Surface Pressure

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surface pressure [′sər·fəs ‚presh·ər]

(meteorology)

The atmospheric pressure at a given location on the earth's surface; the expression is applied loosely and about equally to the more specific terms: station pressure and sea-level pressure.

(physics)

film pressure

Surface Pressure

a force acting on a unit of length of the barrier separating the pure surface of a liquid and the surface of the same liquid covered with an adsorption layer of a surfactant. Surface pressure has a molecular kinetic nature; it is directed toward the pure surface and is determined by the difference in surface tensions of the pure liquid and of the liquid with an adsorption monolayer.

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