Avogadro

American  

[ah-vuh-gah-droh, ah-vaw-gah-draw] / ˌɑ vəˈgɑ droʊ, ˌɑ vɔˈgɑ drɔ /

noun

1. Count Amadeo 1776–1856, Italian physicist and chemist.

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Avogadro British  

/ ˌævəˈɡɑːdrəʊ, avoˈɡaːdro /

noun

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

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Avogadro Scientific  

/ ä′və-gä′drō /

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

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Example Sentences

The Avogadro Project has been at this for thirty years, as well.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 15, 2018

“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 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