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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A physical law describing the relationship of the measurable properties of an ideal gas, where P (pressure) × V (volume) = n (number of moles) × R (the gas constant) × T (temperature in Kelvin). It is derived from a combination of the gas laws of Boyle, Charles, and Avogadro.
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- noun physics the equation of state of an
ideal gas - PV = nRT
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