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The cordless vacuum is extra powerful and has two suction settings, 9kPa and 5kPa (kilopascals, a measurement of suction pressure).
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Lauren Taylor, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 June 2023
And 166 kilopascals of pressure from the water times the 1.5 square meters of the door equaled 249,000 newtons of aquatic force shoving against the door.
—Rachel Lance, Wired, 7 Apr. 2020
Pressure to perform Physicists hope to achieve their dream of creating a material that conducts electricity with no resistance at room temperature — although, for now, such superconducting materials work only at pressures of millions of kilopascals.
—Davide Castelvecchi, Scientific American, 30 Dec. 2019
Sinatra says that a contact pressure (the force created by two objects pushing away from each other) of 1 kilopascals (kPa) or more could potentially squish the fragile jellies.
—Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 28 Aug. 2019
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Lauren Taylor, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 June 2023
And 166 kilopascals of pressure from the water times the 1.5 square meters of the door equaled 249,000 newtons of aquatic force shoving against the door.
—Rachel Lance, Wired, 7 Apr. 2020
Pressure to perform Physicists hope to achieve their dream of creating a material that conducts electricity with no resistance at room temperature — although, for now, such superconducting materials work only at pressures of millions of kilopascals.
—Davide Castelvecchi, Scientific American, 30 Dec. 2019
Sinatra says that a contact pressure (the force created by two objects pushing away from each other) of 1 kilopascals (kPa) or more could potentially squish the fragile jellies.
—Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 28 Aug. 2019
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“Kilopascal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kilopascal. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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