Bar (unit) mb (rather than the proper mbar) to denote the millibar. Between 1793 and 1795, the word bar was used for a unit of weight in an early version of the metric system. Atmospheric air pressure is often given in millibars, where standard atmospheric pressure at sea level is defined as 1013.25 mbar, 101.325 kPa, 1.01325 bar, which is about . Despite the millibar not being an SI unit, meteorologists and weather reporters worldwide have long measured air pressure in millibars as the values are convenient. After the advent of SI units, some meteorologists began using hectopascals (symbol hPa) which are
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.