Gas Constant - Relationship With The Boltzmann Constant

Relationship With The Boltzmann Constant

The Boltzmann constant kB (often abbreviated k) may be used in place of the gas constant by working in pure particle count, N, rather than amount of substance, n, since

where NA is the Avogadro constant. For example, the ideal gas law in terms of Boltzmann's constant is

where N is the number of particles (atoms or molecules).

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