The early history of chemistry has many interesting stories. Just consider the problems scientists had 200 years ago as they tried to figure out some of the most basic ideas of chemistry. It was clear ...

Avogadro’s Number Value: While solving numerical Physics and Chemistry one name that you must have encountered in Avogardo’s number. Most of you might be aware of its usage and value; if not, then ...

Contrary to the beliefs of generations of chemistry students, Avogadro’s number—the number of particles in a unit known as a mole—was not discovered by Amadeo Avogadro (1776-1856). Avogadro was a ...

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 two of the most precise ...

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 ...

1 mol is the amount of substance that contains the same number of particles as there are atoms in 12.0 g of carbon-12.

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 ...