IN his Rutherford Memorial Lecture 1 Sir Charles Darwin writes: “The first estimate of Avogadro's number is due to Maxwell himself”, and expresses his astonishment that Maxwell “should have ...

Celebrated annually on October 23 from 6:02 a.m. to 6:02 p.m., Mole Day commemorates "Avogadro's Number": 6.02 x 10 23. This number--called a mole--is a basic measuring unit in chemistry. Mole Day ...

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 ...

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.

Because this is a very big number, scientists shorten it to 6.02 x 10 23. Professor Molenium also told us this number is named after the scientist, Amedeo Avogadro, and it’s called Avogadro’s number – ...

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.

Number of copies of DNA template per µl = (DNA concentration (ng/µl) x Avogadro's number) / (length of template (bp) x conversion factor to ng x average weight of a base pair (Da)) Number of copies = ...