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The air puts a pressure on everything of about 10N per square
centimetre. That is a force equivalent to the weight of a
1 kg bag of sugar on each square centimetre.
Air pressure is pushing on you from all directions right
now, but you don't feel it because there
is the same pressure inside you pushing out.
We can see examples of the effects of air pressure in events
we have already looked at:
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