ScienceAugust 16, 2026
kbar
KAY-bar
Definition
A unit of pressure equal to one thousand bars, commonly used in scientific and industrial contexts to measure extreme pressure levels.
Etymology
Derived from the scientific unit 'bar' (from the Greek 'baros' meaning weight) with the prefix 'k-' for 'kilo-', representing a factor of one thousand.
In the news
In the article, the term is used to quantify the extreme pressure conditions researchers simulated to study how water molecules and TMAO behave at ocean depths.
We assume the deepest parts of the ocean are dark and empty, but the walls of the Mariana Trench hold snailfish drifting five miles down under pressure equivalent to a car pressing on every square centimetre of skin, their bones half-dissolved into cartilage so
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