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Categories: Units of pressure, Non-SI metric units, Mercury (element), Articles with short description
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torr  millimeter of mercury  mm Hg  millimetre of mercury  Conventional millimeter of mercury
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A unit of pressure equal to 0.001316 atmosphere; named after Torricelli WordNet 3.0
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A millimetre of mercury is a manometric unit of pressure, formerly defined as the extra pressure generated by a column of mercury one millimetre high, and currently defined as exactly 133.322387415 pascals or exactly 133.322 pascals. Wikipedia
The torr is a unit of pressure based on an absolute scale, defined as exactly 1/760 of a standard atmosphere. Wikipedia
A unit of pressure named for physicist Evangelista Torricelli Wikipedia Disambiguation
Traditional unit of pressure Wikidata
Manometric unit of pressure Wikidata
A unit of pressure equal to the amount of fluid pressure one millimeter deep in mercury at zero degrees Celsius on Earth. Wiktionary
Unit of pressure. Wiktionary (translation)
A unit of pressure that is equal to approximately 0.001316 atmospheres or 133.3 pascals. Wiktionary
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