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Define atmospheric pressure?

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It is a pressure applied by the atmosphere around us.
It is because of the atmospheric pressure the blood in our blood vessel flows properly.
It can also be defined as the pressure exerted by the earth's atmosphere at any given point, is the product of the mass of the atmospheric column of the unit area above the given point and of the gravitational acceleration at the given point.

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