02935 IUPAC Gold Book - ideal gas 10.1351/goldbook.I02935 I02935 current 1 Gas which obeys the equation of state \(p\, V=n\, R\, T\) (the ideal gas law; \(p\) is the pressure, \(V\) the volume, \(n\) the amount of molecules, \(R\) the gas constant and \(T\) the thermodynamic temperature). For an ideal gas the fugacity, \(f\), of each constituent B is equal to its partial pressure, \(p_{\rm{B}}\), \(f_{\rm{B}}=p_{\rm{B}}=x_{\rm{B}}\ p\), where \(x_{\rm{B}}\) is the amount fraction of B. constituent https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/C01281 fugacity https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/F02543 gas constant https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/G02579 partial pressure https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/P04420 thermodynamic temperature https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/T06321 Physical Chemistry Division, unpublished PAC, 1990, 62, 2167. 'Glossary of atmospheric chemistry terms (Recommendations 1990)' on page 2196 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac199062112167) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/I02935/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/I02935/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/I02935/plain Citation: 'ideal gas' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.I02935 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-06-12T14:49:54+00:00