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Essay on the mathematical theory of the distribution of electricity on the surface of conducting bodies, 1844. Amedeo Avogadro was born in Turin to a noble family of the Kingdom of Sardinia (now part of Italy) in the year 1776. He graduated in ecclesiastical law at the late age of 20 and began to practice.
Amedeo Avogadro created the word "molecule". [8] His 1811 paper "Essay on Determining the Relative Masses of the Elementary Molecules of Bodies", he essentially states, i.e. according to Partington's A Short History of Chemistry, that: [9]
Avogadro's hypothesis (as it was known originally) was formulated in the same spirit of earlier empirical gas laws like Boyle's law (1662), Charles's law (1787) and Gay-Lussac's law (1808).
[4] [25] Amedeo Avogadro did the opposite: he exclusively used the word "molecule" in his writings, eschewing the word "atom", instead using the term "elementary molecule". [26] Jöns Jacob Berzelius used the term "organic atoms" to refer to particles containing three or more elements, because he thought this only existed in organic compounds.
These three gas laws in combination with Avogadro's law can be generalized by the ideal gas law. Gay-Lussac used the formula acquired from ΔV/V = αΔT to define the rate of expansion α for gases. For air, he found a relative expansion ΔV/V = 37.50% and obtained a value of α = 37.50%/100 °C = 1/266.66 °C which indicated that the value of ...
The concept of atoms and molecules were known, but after the Congress the Avogadro-Ampère theory became accepted. Maxwell's equations (1861–1864). The four pillars of physics: Isaac Newton (1642–1726/27), James Maxwell (1831–1879), Max Planck (1858–1947) and Albert Einstein (1879–1955).
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Amedeo Avogadro (1776–1856), Italian chemist and physicist, discovered Avogadro's law; B. Stephen Moulton Babcock (1843–1931), American agricultural chemist ...