Avogadro

[ ah-vuh-gah-droh; Italian ah-vaw-gah-draw ]

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noun

Count A·ma·de·o [ah-mah-, de, -aw], 1776–1856, Italian physicist and chemist.

Avogadro

/ ˌævəˈɡɑːdrəʊ; avoˈɡaːdro /

AvogadroAmedeo17761856MItalianSCIENCE: physicist Amedeo (ameˈdɛːo), Conte di Quaregna. 1776–1856, Italian physicist, noted for his work on gases

Avogadro

/ ä′və-gä′drō /

Italian chemist and physicist who formulated the hypothesis known as Avogadro's law in 1811.

Of the laws and hypotheses concerning gases, the one that is perhaps of most importance to chemistry is Avogadro's hypothesis.

In 1843 Charles Gerhardt proposed to use the law of Avogadro as a basis for the determination of atomic weights.

It is to the molecule, considered as the unit of physical structure, that Avogadro's law applies.

According to Avogadro the water vapor contains twice as many atoms of hydrogen as of oxygen.

This is a scientific victory which dwarfs the work of Helmholtz, Avogadro, or Mendelejeff.

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