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What is an isobar?

What is an isobar? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (meteorology) A line drawn on a map or chart connecting places of equal or constant pressure.
  2. (nuclear physics) Either of two nuclides of different elements having the same mass number.
  3. (thermodynamics) A set of points or conditions at constant pressure.
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For example, a 1012-hPa isobar would be drawn between the observations of 1013 hPa and 1010 hPa about one-third the way from the 1013 hPa reading.
In most cases the 29.80-inch isobar furnishes a good limit, out to which the isobars may be traced.
On the completed surface pressure analysis of Figure 1, the pressure inside the 1012-hPa isobar is higher than the isobar value.
The heating isobar for the transformed monolayers remained virtually superimposable on the curve for films that had experienced no rapid compression.
No discontinuous change occurs in either the compression isotherm or the heating isobar.
The half-lives for the decay of the radioactive species generally increase as they approach the stable isobar of the chain.

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