Bar (unit) Bar (unit) The bar is a metric unit of pressure, but is not approved as part of the International System of Units (SI). It is defined as exactly equal to 100,000 Pa, which is slightly less than the current average atmospheric pressure on Earth at sea level. The bar and the millibar were introduced by the Norwegian meteorologist Vilhelm Bjerknes, who was a founder of the modern practice of weather forecasting. The International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) lists the bar as one of the "non-SI units [that authors] should have the freedom to use", but has declined to
Henry's law a species in the aqueous phase, and formula_8 is the partial pressure of that species in the gas phase under equilibrium conditions. The SI unit for formula_12 is mol/(m Pa); however, often the unit M/atm is used, since formula_17 is usually expressed in M (1 M = 1 mol/dm) and formula_8 in atm (1 atm = 101325 Pa). The Henry solubility can also be expressed as the dimensionless ratio between the aqueous-phase concentration formula_17 of a species and its gas-phase concentration formula_24: For an ideal gas, the conversion is: where formula_27 is the gas constant and formula_28 is the temperature.