AVOGADRO

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• AVOGADRO (noun)
  The noun AVOGADRO has 1 sense:

1. Italian physicist noted for his work on gases; proposed what has come to be called Avogadro's law (1776-1856)

  Familiarity information: AVOGADRO used as a noun is very rare.

• AVOGADRO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Italian physicist noted for his work on gases; proposed what has come to be called Avogadro's law (1776-1856)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Amedeo Avogadro; Avogadro

Instance hypernyms:

physicist (a scientist trained in physics)

 Context examples 

A constant used also as a unit of electric charge representing the electric charge carried by one mole (an Avogadro's number) of electrons or one equivalent of ions, and equal to the quantity of electricity that is capable of depositing or liberating one gram equivalent weight of a substance in electrolysis, approximately 9.6494E4 coulombs.

(Faraday, NCI Thesaurus)