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2 unusual facts about Amedeo Avogadro


Avogadro

Amedeo Avogadro (1776–1856), chemist; responsible for Avogadro's law

Diatomic molecule

As early as 1805, Gay-Lussac and von Humboldt showed that water is formed of two volumes of hydrogen and one volume of oxygen, and by 1811 Amedeo Avogadro had arrived at the correct interpretation of water's composition, based on what is now called Avogadro's law and the assumption of diatomic elemental molecules.



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