Surface-area-to-volume ratio Surface-area-to-volume ratio The surface-area-to-volume ratio, also called the surface-to-volume ratio and variously denoted sa/vol or SA:V, is the amount of surface area per unit volume of an object or collection of objects. In chemical reactions involving a solid material, the surface area to volume ratio is an important factor for the reactivity, that is, the rate at which the chemical reaction will proceed. For a given volume, the object with the smallest surface area (and therefore with the smallest SA:V) is the sphere, a consequence of the isoperimetric inequality in 3 dimensions. By contrast, objects with tiny spikes will have
Solid nitrogen of Pluto. The thermal conductivity of solid nitrogen is 0.7 W m K. Thermal conductivity varies with temperature and the relation is given by "k" = 180.2×T watts per kelvin. Specific heat is given by 926.91×e joules per kilogram per kelvin. Its appearance at 50 K is transparent, while at 20 K it is white. Nitrogen frost has a density of 0.85 g cm. As a bulk material the crystals are pressed together and density is near that of water. It is temperature dependent and given by ρ = 0.0134"T" − 0.6981"T" + 1038.1 kg/m. The volume coefficient of expansion