Universal Gas constant and arrhenius equation

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I am curious as to how the Universal Gas Constant, R, is important with regards to the rates in solids? It is in the Arrhenius Equation
 
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The gas constant is simply ##R \equiv N_\mathrm{A} k_\mathrm{B}##, the Boltzmann constant scaled for a molar quantities.