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Standard Temperature and Pressure: the 1 atm Convention

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Standard temperature and pressure, STP, historically fixed pressure at exactly 1 atmosphere and temperature at 273.15 kelvin, the convention most pre-1982 chemistry literature still uses.

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Under this convention, one mole of an ideal gas occupies about 22.4 liters at STP.

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This 1-atm convention is not obsolete fiction — much still-cited data, and this course's own earlier units, use it by default.