Talk:Orders of magnitude (pressure)

pressure washers

It seems a bit inaccurate to definitively state that all pressure washers function at the same pressure. Can we get a fact check, or better a range/clarification of this datum? -- nae'blis 02:45, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Degenerate matter

I think it would be useful to include the pressures at which various degenerate matter effects dominate, i.e. electron degeneracy, neutron degeneracy, quark, etc. These values would not be of much practical use, but would illustrate the relationship of quantum physics effects to everyday life. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.76.23.45 (talk) 21:01, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Housefly on a postage stamp?

I ditched this example because it seems wrong. A housefly weighs about 10 mg [1] to 12 mg [2] and I just measured a standard, non-commemorative postage stamp at 20 x 23 mm. Google Calculator tells me that "10 milligrams * 9.8 metres per square second / 460 square millimetres" = 0.213043478 pascals. I haven't taken account of buoyancy, which would make the pressure even less. To get 1 Pa you would need a very big fly or a very small stamp. --Heron (talk) 14:10, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Fictional Character. Stupid to include this.

I'm removing this: 12.7 MPa 1850 psi Pressure exerted from a punch by Ivan Drago in Rocky IV Davidmanheim (talk) 16:04, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

Near Earth outer space pressure

How can the 'Near Earth outer space pressure' be over 10,000 times as high as the pressure of the atmosphere on the moon?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.71.43.37 (talk) 19:22, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Industrial Processes

There's an order of magnitude gap between 600 MN and 9 GPa. There's no mention of industrial high-pressure processes such as die-cutting, punch cutting, or the pressure between two rollers, such as used to thin aluminum ingots. I don't know any of these pressure values, but certainly someone does. Mathwhiz90601 (talk) 18:39, 9 October 2010 (UTC)