atmospheric pressure
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They have also noticed a drop in atmospheric pressure over the central Pacific compared with the western Pacific.
From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026
A traditional nuclear power plant uses water to cool the reactor core, but Newcleo’s design would instead use liquid lead, which has a higher boiling point and allows operations at atmospheric pressure.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026
That assumption changed in the late 1980s when Georg Bednorz and Karl Alexander Müller discovered copper-oxide superconductors, also known as cuprates, that exhibited high-temperature superconductivity under normal atmospheric pressure.
From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2025
Barosinusitis is fairly common on flights or when scuba-diving because the atmospheric pressure around us can’t always equalize with the air pressure inside our sinuses.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2024
Third, 100 percent oxygen would not be used on the launch pad, at full atmospheric pressure, but would be used only in orbit, at one- third atmospheric pressure.
From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins
