Etymology

Avogadro's law

Today it means: A gas law stating that when held at constant pressure and temperature, the volume of a gas is proportional to the amount of molecules in it (now subsumed by the ideal gas law). Full definition →

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Proposed by Italian chemist Amedeo Avogadro.

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