How did Avogadro count his number?
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Avogadro’s number is basically just the number of hydrogen atoms that weigh a gram. When scientists started to figure out that other elements are comprised of the same stuff, in discrete multiples, it becomes a useful conversion between the “atomic weight” and the actual weight.
Precisely, it’s carbon-12 that is used to define the conversion, not hydrogen.
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