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irinina [24]
3 years ago
15

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Geography
1 answer:
makkiz [27]3 years ago
5 0

The air around you has weight, and it presses against everything it touches. That pressure is called atmospheric pressure, or air pressure. It is the force exerted on a surface by the air above it as gravity pulls it to Earth. Atmospheric pressure is commonly measured with a barometer.

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