[modeleng] Other odd units was: Bar as in pressure

  • From: "Tim Rickard" <the_viffer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 11:01:20 +0000

The barn is an area of 10 exp-28 m exp2: about the size of the nuclues of a 
uranium atom. So named by nuclear physicists because for them it is as big 
as a barn.

They (and I) should get out more.


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