The barometric pressure in the eye of a hurricane is often about two inches of mercury (60 mbar) below normal. What elevation change does this pressure drop correspond to?
Some schools are trying to ban vending machine water bottle sales to reduce our consumption of disposable plastic water bottles. How many times would you need to reuse a permanent water bottle to justify its use?
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