| Magnitude |
Pressure |
lbf/in2 |
Item |
| 10−15 Pa
|
1 fPa |
|
Interstellar space pressure (approximate) |
| 10−9 Pa
|
1 nPa |
|
Atmospheric pressure on the Moon (approximate)citation needed |
| 1 nPa |
|
vacuum expected in the beam pipe of the Large Hadron Collider's Atlas experiment1 |
| 10−6 Pa
|
1 µPa |
|
Pressure inside a vacuum tube (approximate, varies). Reference pressure for sound in water. |
| 20 µPa |
|
Threshold of human hearing - the smallest RMS pressure fluctuation that the human ear can hear in a noiseless environment, at frequencies between 1 kHz and 5 kHz.
Reference pressure for sound in air.
|
| 100 µPa |
|
Near earth outer space pressure (approximate) |
| 10−3 Pa
|
0.5 Pa |
|
Atmospheric pressure on Pluto (1988 figure; very roughly) |
| 1 Pa
|
1 Pa |
|
Pressure exerted by a UK five pound note resting on a surface 2 |
| 10 Pa |
|
Pressure increase per millimeter of a water column at earth mean sea level. |
| 10 Pa |
|
Pressure inside an incandescent light bulb (approximate) |
| 100 Pa |
|
Threshold of pain. Sounds above this amplitude are unbearable and can cause ear pain. Prolonged exposure may lead to hearing loss. |
| 103 Pa
|
1 kPa |
0.145 psi |
Atmospheric pressure on Mars, 1 % of atmospheric sea-level pressure on Earth |
| 10 kPa |
1.45 psi |
Pressure increase per meter of a water column1, or the drop in air pressure when going from earth sea level to 1000 m elevation |
| 101.325 kPa |
14.696 psi |
Standard atmospheric pressure for earth sea level |
| 180 to 250 kPa |
26 to 36 psi |
Air pressure in an automobile tire |
| 407 to 607 kPa |
59 to 88 psi |
Air pressure in a champagne bottle3. |
| 690 to 828 kPa |
100 to 120 psi |
Air pressure in a heavy truck/bus tire. |
| 106 Pa
|
0.8 to 2 MPa |
120 to 290 psi |
Pressure used in boilers of steam locomotives |
| 9 MPa |
1305 psi |
Atmospheric pressure on Venus (90 bar) |
| 10 MPa |
1450 psi |
Pressure washers force out water at this pressure |
| 12 MPa |
1740 psi |
Pressure exerted by a 60kg woman wearing stilettos |
| 20 MPa |
2900 psi |
Pressure of a typical aluminium scuba tank (200 bar) |
| 100 MPa |
14500 psi |
Pressure at bottom of Mariana Trench, about 10 km below ocean surface (1000 bar) |
| 400 MPa |
|
Chamber pressure of .50 BMG weapon discharge |
| 600 MPa |
|
Water pressure used in a water jet cutter. |
| 109 Pa
|
9 GPa |
|
Pressure at which octaoxygen forms 4 (90000 bar) |
| 18 GPa |
|
Pressure needed for the first commercially successful synthesis of diamond |
| 96 GPa |
|
Pressure at which metallic oxygen forms5 (960000 bar) |
| 100 GPa |
|
Theoretical tensile strength of a carbon nanotube (CNT) |
| 380 GPa |
|
Pressure inside the core of the Earth (3.8 million bar) |
| 1012 Pa
|
530 TPa |
|
Pressure inside an Ivy Mike-like nuclear bomb detonation (5.3 billion bar) |
| 1015 Pa
|
6.4 PPa |
|
Pressure inside a W80 nuclear warhead detonation (64 billion bar) |
| 25 PPa |
|
Pressure inside the core of the Sun.6 (250 billion bar) |
| 10111 Pa |
4.63 × 10113 Pa |
|
The Planck pressure (4.63x10108 Bar) |