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Kilogram-force per square centimetre

Kilogram-force per square centimetre

Unit of pressure

A kilogram-force per centimetre square (kgf/cm2), often just kilogram per square centimetre (kg/cm2), or kilopond per centimetre square (kp/cm2) is a deprecated unit of pressure using metric units. It is not a part of the International System of Units (SI), the modern metric system. 1 kgf/cm2 equals 98.0665 kPa (kilopascals). It is also known as a technical atmosphere (symbol: at).[1][2]

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The kilogram-force per square centimetre remains active as a measurement of force primarily due to older pressure measurement devices still in use.

This use of the unit of pressure provides an intuitive understanding for how a body's mass can apply force to a scale's surface area i.e.kilogram-force per square (centi-)metre.

In SI units, the unit is converted to the SI derived unit pascal (Pa), which is defined as one newton per square metre (N/m2). A newton is equal to 1 kg⋅m/s2, and a kilogram-force is 9.80665 N,[3] meaning that 1 kgf/cm2 equals 98.0665 kilopascals (kPa).

In some older publications, kilogram-force per square centimetre is abbreviated ksc instead of kg/cm2.

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1 at = 98.0665 kPa
≈ 0.96784 standard atmospheres
Pressure gauge from unknown source produced by ISGUS GmbH.
Pressure gauge from unknown source. Note the "square" instead of 2. (Olja means "oil" in Swedish)

Ambiguity of at

The symbol "at" clashes with that of the katal (symbol: "kat"), the SI unit of catalytic activity; a kilotechnical atmosphere would have the symbol "kat", indistinguishable from the symbol for the katal. It also clashes with that of the non-SI unit, the attotonne, but that unit would more likely be rendered as the equivalent SI unit, the picogram.

References

  1. [1]
    Dorf, Richard C. (2003-11-24). CRC Handbook of Engineering Tables. CRC Press. ISBN 9780203009222.
  2. [2]
    Suplee, Curt (2009-07-02). "Special Publication 811". NIST. Retrieved 2019-05-17.
  3. [3]
    The NIST Guide for the use of the International System of Units, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 18 Oct 2011
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