Avogadro
Americannoun
noun
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“Maybe the roundest in the universe,” Joachim Ullrich, the physicist who runs the German metrological institute and oversees the Avogadro Project, told me.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 15, 2018
The Avogadro Project has been at this for thirty years, as well.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 15, 2018
The four will be based on Planck's constant, the elementary charge, the Boltzmann constant and the Avogadro constant, respectively.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 29, 2018
It was Avogadro who developed the idea of a fixed number of atoms and molecules in a mole, and this special number is called Avogadro’s number in his honor.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
The principle led to the much later adoption of Avogadro’s number, a basic unit of measure in chemistry, which was named for Avogadro long after his death.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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