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AVOGADRO, AMEDEO, CONTE

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AVOGADRO, AMEDEO, See also:CONTE Dr QUAREGNA (1776-1856), See also:Italian physicist, was See also:born at See also:Turin on the 9th of See also:June 1776, and died there on the 9th of See also:July 1856. He was for many years See also:professor of higher physics in Turin University. He published many See also:physical See also:memoirs on See also:electricity, the See also:dilatation of liquids by See also:heat, specific heats, capillary attraction, atomic volumes &c. as well as a See also:treatise in 4 volumes on Fisica di corgi ponderabili (1837-1841). But he is chiefly remembered for his " Essai d'une maniere de determiner See also:les masses relatives See also:des molecules elementaires des See also:corps, et les proportions selon lesquelles elles entrent clans les combinaisons" (Journ. de Phys., 1811), in which he enunciated the See also:hypothesis known by his name (Avogadro's See also:rule) that under the same conditions of temperature and pressure equal volumes of all gases contain the same number of smallest particles or molecules, whether those particles consist of single atoms or are composed 'of two or more atoms of the same or different kinds. ws AVOIDANCE (from " avoid," properly to make empty or void, in current usage, to keep away from, to shun; the word " avoid " is adapted from the O. Fr. esvuidier or dvider, to empty out, voide, See also:modern vide, empty, connected with See also:Lat. vacuus), the See also:action of making empty, void or null, hence, in See also:law, invalidation, annulment (see See also:CONFESSION AND AVOIDANCE); also the becoming void or vacant, hence in ecclesiastical law a See also:term signifying the vacancy of a benefice—that it is void of an See also:incumbent. In See also:general use, the word means the action of keeping away from anything, shunning or avoiding.

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