The Avogadro constant is named after the early nineteenth century Italian scientist Amedeo Avogadro, who is credited (1811) with being the first to realize that the volume of a gas (strictly, of an ideal gas) is proportional to the number of atoms or molecules. The French chemist Jean Baptiste Perrin in 1909 proposed naming the constant in honor of Avogadro. American chemistry textbooks picked it up in the 1930's followed by high school textbooks starting in the 1950s.
The unit "mole" was introduced into chemistry around 1900 by Ostwald, and he originally defined this unit in terms of gram. Gram is a unit of mass; but what is the mole a unit of? Ostwald did not say;3 however, several years later, he did make it clear that the concept of mole should be linked to the ideal gas. 4
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3"...the molecular weight of a substance, expressed in grams, shall henceforth be called mole [.
. . das in Grammen augedruckte [. . .] Molekulargewicht eines Stoffes soll fortan ein Mol heissen]" Ref. 7).
4 "That amount of any gas that occupies a volume of 22414 mL in normal conditions is called one mole [eine solche Menge irgendeines Gases, welche das Volum von 22412 ccm im Normalzustand einnimt nennt man ein Mol]"
References Ref. 7. Ostwald, W. Grundriss der allgemeinen Chemie; Leipzig: Engelmann, 1900, p. 11 Ref. 8. Ostwald, W. Grundriss der allgemeinen Chemie, 5th ed.; Dresden: Steinkopff, 1917, p. 44 From-http://dbhs.wvusd.k12.ca.us/webdocs/Mole/Origin-of-Mole.html Real World Moles (wiki) Given that the volume of a grain of sand is approximately 10-12 m3, and given that the area of the United States is about 1013m2, it therefore follows that a mole of sand grains would cover the United States in approximately one centimeter of sand. A human body contains very roughly one hundred trillion cells; there are roughly six billion people on Earth; so the total number of human cells on the planet is approximately 100×1012*6×109=6×1023, which is very close to one mole. Since the Earth has a radius of about 6400 km, its volume is approximately 1021 m3. Since about 500 large grapefruit will fit in one cubic meter, it therefore follows that a mole of grapefruit would have approximately the same volume as the Earth. If you had exactly one mole of sheets of paper, you could make one million equal stacks from sea level on the earth that would pass the sun. If you had a mole of pennies, you could give out enough money to everyone in the world so that they could spend a million dollars every hour, day and night, for the rest of their lives.
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Mole relations: One mole (abbreviated mol) is equal to 6.02×10 23 molecular entities (Avogadro's number). Each element has a different molar mass depending on the weight of 6.02×10 23 of its atoms (1 mole). The total number of atoms of each element must be the same on each side of the equation to satisfy the Law of Conservation of Mass. The experiment aides in the understanding of mole-mass relationships that exist in a chemical reaction and in the interpretation of a balanced chemical equation.
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Moles Volume HCl Volume Water 2 M 10 cm 3 0 cm 3 1.5 M 7.5 cm 3 2.5 cm 3 1 M 5 cm 3 5 cm 3 0.5 M 2.5 cm 3 7.5 cm 3
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... is not the only thing it taught the community of chemists though, it also showed that reactions are able to sit at equilibrium for a while before fully going to completion. After the academy had seen the work he had done in with the reaction, he became a director of the Second Chemical Institute of the Berlin University. He worked here from 1891 to 1905. During this time he also proved the law of concentration of mass and energy to be true, adding to his contributions the science of chemistry. He died in 1910. (3)
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remaining 20 percent is due to other gasses that are present in very small amounts? (Murck,