nanopascal

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noun

One billionth (10⁻⁹) of a pascal.

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Meanings

nounnanopascal (plural nanopascals)

plural nanopascals

  1. One billionth (10⁻⁹) of a pascal.

    The calorimeter operates over pressure intervals from a few nanopascals to about one hundred millipascals and over temperature intervals from 280 to 370 K.

    1990, Ludomir Zommer, Ryszard Duś, Stanislaw L. Randzio, “A modified adsorption microcalorimeter with computerized collection and reduction of the data”, in Applied Surface Science, volume 45, number 2, →DOI, page 93

Origin

From nano- + pascal.

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