AVOGADRO'S NUMBER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Avogadro's number mean? 

• AVOGADRO'S NUMBER (noun)
  The noun AVOGADRO'S NUMBER has 1 sense:

1. the number of molecules in a mole of a substance (approximately 602,250,000,000,000,000,000,000)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• AVOGADRO'S NUMBER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The number of molecules in a mole of a substance (approximately 602,250,000,000,000,000,000,000)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

Avogadro's number; Avogadro number

Hypernyms ("Avogadro's number" is a kind of...):

constant (a number representing a quantity assumed to have a fixed value in a specified mathematical context)

 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)