RA2lover: Add lua methods to calculate evaporation pressure/temperature for a given temperature/pressure

2026-03-13T20:00:26Z

Add lua methods to calculate evaporation pressure/temperature for a given temperature/pressure

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 --GetGas(?): Try to find a gas matching the input. Returns a table containing data for that gas or throws an error.
 local GasData = mw.loadData("Module:Gas/data")
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 end
 p.GetGas = GetGas
 return p

RA2lover: Initial version. No infobox functionality implemented.

2026-03-13T05:17:48Z

Initial version. No infobox functionality implemented.

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--Wikitext methods:
--Infobox(GasName): Creates an infobox for the gas type. (NYI)

--Lua methods:
--GetGas(?): Try to find a gas matching the input. Returns a table containing data for that gas or throws an error.

local GasData = mw.loadData("Module:Gas/data")

local p = {}

local function GetGas(input)
--Attempts to get a Gas object from user input.
if input == nil then return nil end

--Frame handling
if type(input)=="table" and type(input.args)=="table" then return GetGas(p.args.Name) or GetGas(p.args[1]) or GetGas(p.args[2]) or GetGas(p.args[3]) end

--Gas handling
if type(input)=="table" and type(input.Name)=="String" and type(input.State)=="String" and type(input.MolarMass)=="number" then return input end

--Number handling
if type(input)=="number" then return GasData[input] or error("Could not find GasData for Gas number: "..input) end

--String handling
if type(input)=="string" then
-- See if there's a direct name match
if type(GasData[input])=="table" and GasData[input].Name == input then return GasData[input] end

-- search for human readable names
for k,v in pairs(GasData.HumanReadableName) do
if v==input then return GetGas(k) end
end

-- search for human readable symbols, preferring gases first
local LiquidWithSymbol
for k,v in pairs(GasData.HumanReadableSymbol) do
if v==input and GasData[k].State=="Gas" then return p.GetGas(k) end
if v==input and GasData[k].State=="Liquid" then LiquidWithSymbol = k end
end
if LiquidWithSymbol then return GetGas(LiquidWithSymbol) end

-- Hail mary: Try to find a liquid version of the gas.
if input:sub(1,6)=="Liquid" then error("Could not find GasData for gas: "..input) end --fail if we're already doing that

-- If there's a space in our name we'll probably have better luck by also using a space.
if string.match(input, " .") then return p.GetGas("Liquid "..input) else return p.GetGas("Liquid"..input) end

end

end
p.GetGas = GetGas

return p

Module:Gas - Revision history

RA2lover: Add lua methods to calculate evaporation pressure/temperature for a given temperature/pressure

RA2lover: Initial version. No infobox functionality implemented.