Avogadro's law

English

Etymology

Proposed by Italian chemist Amedeo Avogadro.

Proper noun

Avogadro's law

  1. (physical chemistry, historical) 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).
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