standard atmosphere, atm (unit)

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ID: https://schemas.optimade.org/defs/v1.2/units/si/1970/accepted/atmosphere
Definition name: atmosphere

Unit name: standard atmosphere
Latin symbol: atm
Display symbol: atm

Description: A pressure approximately equal to the average atmospheric pressure at sea level on Earth, defined as 101325 Pa using the 1967 SI units.

The standard atmosphere unit appears in the International System of Units (SI), 1st ed. (1970) defined as "1 atm = 101325 Pa" with the footnote "Resolution 4 at the 10th C.G.P.M. (1954)." (While the pascal unit appears in the 1st ed. as a symbol for N·s/m², it was adopted into SI at the 14th CGPM meeting in 1971.)

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    "title": "standard atmosphere",
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    "description": "A pressure approximately equal to the average atmospheric pressure at sea level on Earth, defined as 101325 Pa using the 1967 SI units.\n\nThe standard atmosphere unit appears in the International System of Units (SI), 1st ed. (1970) defined as \"1 atm = 101325 Pa\" with the footnote \"Resolution 4 at the 10th C.G.P.M. (1954).\"\n(While the pascal unit appears in the 1st ed. as a symbol for N\u00b7s/m\u00b2, it was adopted into SI at the 14th CGPM meeting in 1971.)\n\n- In the International System of Units (SI), 1st ed. (1970) it is categorized as \"temporarily admitted\" for use with the SI units.\n- The International System of Units (SI), 4th ed. (1981) changes the categorization to \"Other units generally deprecated\" and adds to the footnote that: \"The designation \"standard atmosphere\" for a reference pressure of 101 325 Pa is still acceptable.\"\n- The International System of Units (SI), 7th ed. (1998) changes the categorization to \"Examples of other non-SI units.\"\n- The International System of Units (SI), 8th ed. (2006) omits the unit, but uses the term in a footnote to the definition of the unit bar to clarify that prior to 1982 the standard pressure used to tabulate thermodynamical data was the standard atmosphere.\n- The International System of Units (SI), 9th ed. (2006) no longer references the unit or designation.",
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        },
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        },
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