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Boltzmann constant
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Boltzmann constant

Ratio of the universal gas constant (see gas laws) to Avogadro's number. It has a value of 1.380662 × 10−23 joules per kelvin. Named after Ludwig Boltzmann, it is a fundamental constant of physics, occurring in nearly every statistical formulation of both classical and quantum physics.


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where k is the Boltzman constant and T is the absolute temperature.
G is typically defined as NkT where N is the number of crosslinks per volume, k is the Boltzman constant and T is the absolute temperature.
 
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