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  <id>05910</id>
  <title>standard conditions for gases</title>
  <longtitle>IUPAC Gold Book - standard conditions for gases</longtitle>
  <doi>10.1351/goldbook.S05910</doi>
  <code>S05910</code>
  <status>current</status>
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      <id>1</id>
      <text>Temperature, \(273.15\ \rm{K}\) (\(0\ ^{\,\unicode{x26ac}}\rm{C}\)) and pressure of \(10^{5}\) pascals. IUPAC recommends that the former use of the pressure of 1 atm as standard pressure (equivalent to \(1.01325\times 10^{5}\ \rm{Pa}\)) should be discontinued.</text>
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        <item>
          <term>STP</term>
          <url>https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/S06036</url>
        </item>
        <item>
          <term>standard pressure</term>
          <url>https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/S05921</url>
        </item>
      </links>
      <sources>
        <item>PAC, 1990, 62, 2167. 'Glossary of atmospheric chemistry terms (Recommendations 1990)' on page 2216 (https://doi.org/10.1351/pac199062112167)</item>
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    </item>
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  <citation>Citation: 'standard conditions for gases' 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.S05910</citation>
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  <accessed>2026-06-28T18:11:44+00:00</accessed>
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