allobar

Meaning

Noun

Any form of an element having a different isotopic composition to that of the natural element, and thus a different atomic weight.
An area where the atmospheric pressure changes.

Origin

allo- + bar. According to Alfred J. Henry, the meteorology sense was coined in Swedish by Nils Gustaf Ekholm.

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