Avogadro's number

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noun Chemistry.

the constant, 6.022 × 1023, representing the number of atoms, molecules, or ions in one mole of a substance. Symbol: NCompare gram-atom, gram molecule.

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Also called Avogadro constant.

Compare Loschmidt's number.

Origin of Avogadro's number

First recorded in 1925–30; see origin at Avogadro's law

Words nearby Avogadro's number

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How to use Avogadro's number in a sentence

“Our members continue to face a number of challenges,” she said.
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The number of dissenters though is unprecedented in the modern era.
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Starting under Theodore Roosevelt and Howard Taft, embassies headed by career diplomats increased in number.
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“A guy drives up in a 2008 Mercedes, brand new,” Harry S. Connelly Jr. says in the video, according to the Times.
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The number of diplomats was pitiful (45 appointees in 1860), as was the amount of money allocated to them.
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The country is well inhabited, for it contains fifty-one cities, near a hundred walled towns, and a great number of villages.
Gulliver's Travels|Jonathan Swift
We had six field-pieces, but we only took four, harnessed wit twice the usual number of horses.
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There are a number of bacilli, called acid-fast bacilli, which stain in the same way as the tubercle bacillus.
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Five of the number had studied with Liszt before, and the young men are artists already before the public.
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I do not think the average number of passengers on a corresponding route in our country could be so few as twenty.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley

Medical definitions for Avogadro's number

Avogadro's number

The number of molecules in a mole of a substance, approximately 6.0225 X 1023.Avogadro's constant

Scientific definitions for Avogadro's number

Avogadro's number

The number of atoms or molecules in a mole of a substance, approximately 6.0225 X 1023. It is based on the number of carbon atoms in 12 grams of carbon 12.