Avogadro

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

noun

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

Avogadro

/ ˌævəˈɡɑːdrəʊ; avoˈɡaːdro /

noun

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

Avogadro

/ ä′və-gä′drō /

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

Example Sentences

The things I do manage to remember bear an inverse relationship to any usefulness: Avogadro’s number, the Fibonacci sequence, the smell of Chanel No. 5.

From New York Times

Avogadro’s number had been estimated but, like the speed of light, never precisely measured and agreed upon.

From New York Times

The ampere, the kelvin and the mole will also be redefined based on their relationships to the charge on the electron, Boltzmann’s constant and Avogadro’s number, respectively.

From Nature

Another counts the atoms in two spheres of silicon-28 to derive a value for Avogadro’s number, which is converted to Planck’s constant.

From Nature

An international coalition of metrological laboratories known as the Avogadro Project has produced silicon spheres of near-perfect purity and crystal structure, each weighing precisely one kilogram.

From The New Yorker