Chem 1 Flashcards
Pressure is the measure of
Force exerted on a unit area of surface
SI unit for pressure
Newtons per square meter
Newtons per square meter aka
Pascals
Pascals aka
Pa
More commonly used unit for newtons per square meter (2)
Pascals
Atmospheres
Atmospheres aka
Atm
kPa stands for
kiloPascal
1,000 Pa =
1kPa
1 atm = _ Pa
101,325
Standard atmospheric pressure is
Actual pressure at sea level
Standard atmospheric pressure defined as
101.3 kPa
All _ digits are significant (significant figures)
Non-zero (452 mL has three significant figures)
Zero values that are _ are significant (significant figures)
Sandwiched between nonzero digits
When sandwiched, _ make zero still count (significant figures)
Decimals (8.04 has three sig figures)
0.35 has _ sig figures
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