October 23 is marked as Mole Day to commemorate Avogadro's Number 6.02 x 10²³ which is a basic measuring unit in chemistry. Mole Day was created as a way to foster interest in chemistry. Schools ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 14, 2015 -- An ongoing international effort to redefine the kilogram by 2018 has been helped by recent efforts from a team researchers from Italy, Japan and Germany to correlate ...

The great Physicist Albert Einstein, who lived from 1879 to 1955, in his thesis "A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions" determines molecular dimensions and Avogadro’s number through viscosity ...

How many atoms are there in a kilogram of silicon? This number is Avogadro’s constant and working out its value is one of the more important tasks that materials scientists face. Today, a group of ...

I MUST plead guilty to the charge of not having made a very deep search of the older literature in connexion with the evaluation of ‘Avogadro's Number’. This name has only come into general use in ...

IN Prof. Tilden's “Life of Mendeléeff” in the current number of the Journal of the Chemical Society, I see that he refers repeatedly to the “law” of Avogadro. Sir William Ramsay, in his “Modern ...