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Definition of Avogadro
1. Noun. Italian physicist noted for his work on gases; proposed what has come to be called Avogadro's law (1776-1856).
Definition of Avogadro
1. Proper noun. Amedeo Avogadro, Italian physicist ¹
2. Proper noun. A lunar crater named in his honour ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Avogadro
1. Amadeo, Italian physicist, 1776-1856. See: Avogadro's constant, Avogadro's hypothesis, Avogadro's law, Avogadro's number, Avogadro's postulate. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Avogadro
Literary usage of Avogadro
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1912)
"When the law was rightly stated, its discover}7 was attributed to the study by
avogadro of the compressibility and expansion of gases, while the discoverer ..."
2. An Introduction to the Principles of Physical Chemistry from the Standpoint by Edward Wight Washburn (1921)
"avogadro ‘s number, the number of molecules in 32 grams of oxygen, is N = 60.62
X 10” ... According to avogadro ‘s law this is also evidently the number of ..."
3. The Library of Original Sources: Ideas that Have Influenced Civilization, in edited by Oliver Joseph Thatcher (1915)
"Thus by the labors of Dalton, Gay-Lussac, avogadro, and Dulong, the greatest
theory of chemistry and one of the greatest of all the natural sciences was ..."
4. The Atomic Theory by Charles Adolphe Wurtz (1880)
"We shall endeavour to show that the atomic weights given in the preceding table
are in harmony—first, with the law of avogadro and Ampere ; secondly, ..."
5. An Introduction to the Study of Chemistry by Ira Remsen (1909)
"Early in the last century the Italian physicist and chemist, avogadro, ...
This is known as avogadro,s hypothesis. It has since been tested in many ways, ..."
6. A History of Chemistry by Forris Jewett Moore (1918)
"A solution was found by Amadeo avogadro (1776-1856), long professor of physics
at Turin. In 1811 he published in the Journal de Physique an article setting ..."
7. A History of Science by Henry Smith Williams, Edward Huntington Williams (1904)
"The fact must^ be, said avogadro, that under similar physical conditions every
... The compound atom, composed of two or more elementary atoms, avogadro ..."
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