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Avogadro's law

Avogadro's law proper noun: 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).

Proper noun

Avogadro's law

  1. (historical, physical) 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).

Origin of Avogadro's law

Proposed by Italian chemist Amedeo Avogadro.

Questions about Avogadro's law

What does Avogadro's law mean?
Avogadro's law means 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).
What part of speech is Avogadro's law?
Avogadro's law is a proper noun.

Words near Avogadro's law in the dictionary

  1. Avogadrian
  2. avogadrite
  3. Avogadro
  4. Avogadro constant
  5. Avogadro's constant
  6. Avogadro's law
  7. Avogadro's number
  8. avoid
  9. avoid like the plague
  10. avoidability
  11. avoidable

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