standard temperature and pressure

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standard temperature and pressure (countable and uncountable, plural standard temperatures and pressures)

  1. (physics, chemistry) The international, standard conditions used to aid reproducibility; a temperature of 0 °C (273.15 K) and a pressure of 1 atmosphere (101.325 kPa). Abbreviated as STP. Often elliptically called standard conditions.

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