Definition:Universal Gas Constant/Units

Definition

The SI unit for the universal gas constant is given as joules per kelvin per mole:

$\mathrm {J \, K^{-1} \, mol^{-1} }$

where:

$\mathrm J$ denotes the joule

$\mathrm K$ denotes the kelvin

$\mathrm {mol}$ denotes the mole.