"gas constant" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: gas constants [plural]
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  1. (physics) a universal constant, R, that appears in the ideal gas law, PV=nRT, derived from two fundamental constants, the Boltzmann constant and Avogadro's number, R=N_Ak. Wikipedia link: gas constant Translations (universal constant R): gaskonstant [common-gender] (Danish), kaasuvakio (Finnish), moolinen kaasuvakio (Finnish), Gaskonstante [feminine] (German)

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