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millibar

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millibar
a cgs unit of atmospheric pressure equal to 10--3 bar, 100 newtons per square metre or 0.7500617 millimetre of mercury

millibar [′mil·ə‚bär]
(mechanics)
A unit of pressure equal to one-thousandth of a bar. Abbreviated mb. Also known as vac.


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Lowry, 1954: Correlation of density of new snow with 700 millibar temperature.
Though the nitrogen has a pressure of only 1 millibar, he says, it would push up against a thin atmosphere with a surface pressure 100 times less than that.
 
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