pounds per square inch. the us version of bar or n/m²
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BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 7 months ago
Wtf is a psi
teije9@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Why is your comment highlighted blue in Lemmy Connect?
Nomecks@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
It’s what you need to power your Protoss army
niktemadur@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s the Imperial Gangnam Style unit
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 7 months ago
100.000 PSI is equal to 1 bar(if I remember correctly)
9point6@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Unfortunately no, 1 bar (1 atmosphere) is 100,000 pascal
PSI is pounds per square inch and is roughly 14.5 PSI to 1 bar, and to me, way less intuitive than bar
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 7 months ago
Ah thanks.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
PSI is a nice scale for tire pressure since most tires will be between 20-100 PSI. There’s pretty much never a reason to use decimals, and 5 PSI is the most useful increment.
Bar is probably nicer for a bunch of other things, but for everyday use, PSI has a nice scale. That’s also why I prefer Fahrenheit to Celcius for weather, but Celcius for cooking and science.
teije9@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
no, not at all. bar is a logical metric unit, psi is imperial. because the us doesn’t know what powers of 10 are, there’s never a nice conversion factor.
slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
US uses both and is capable of conversion. It is unfortunate, but saying it doesn’t know powers of ten is pretty condescending.
teije9@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
I said (or at least meant) that imperial doesn’t use powers of ten like metrkc
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 7 months ago
That’s metric
Zacryon@feddit.org 7 months ago
Muricas version of pressure.
spookedintownsville@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Freedom units