GBC
Pressure

Torr

Modern equivalent

133.322 Pascals

Used in vacuum engineering, nearly identical to a millimetre of mercury.

Named after Evangelista Torricelli, the torr is a staple unit in vacuum physics and laboratory equipment for measuring extremely low pressures.

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