By 
Dan Quinn
 | 
TED-Ed Original

How heavy is air?

Too often we think of air as empty space — but compared to a vacuum air is actually pretty heavy. So just how heavy is it? And if it's so heavy why doesn't it crush us? Dan Quinn describes the fundamentals of air pressure and explains how it affects our bodies the weather and the universe at large.

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