Pascal (unit) dB SPL, or 20 µPa. The airtightness of buildings is measured at 50 Pa. The units of atmospheric pressure commonly used in meteorology were formerly the bar, which was close to the average air pressure on Earth, and the millibar. Since the introduction of SI units, meteorologists generally measure pressures in hectopascals (hPa) unit, equal to 100 pascals or 1 millibar. Exceptions include Canada, which use kilopascals (kPa). In many other fields of science, the SI is preferred, which means Pa with a prefix (in multiples of 1000) is preferred. Many countries also use the millibars. In practically all other
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.