How and when did Avogadro's name become associated with Avogadro's Number?

Journal of Chemical Education

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 223-

  Jensen, William B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; KINETIC THEORY OF GASES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULES;

AVOGADRO'S NUMBER; CHEMICAL EDUCATION;

PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY;

EID: 33846709620     PISSN: 00219584     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ed084p223     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Cannizzaro, S. "Sunto di un corso di filosofia chimica," Il Nuovo Cimento 1858, 7, 321-366. An English translation is found in Cannizzaro, S. A Sketch of a Course of Chemical Philosophy, Alembic Club Reprint No. 18: Livingstone: Edinburgh, 1966.
2. This statement is based on a survey of texts in the Oesper Collections. Thus it does not appear as an index entry in the 1869 and 1875 editions of the popular text by Cooley, but does appear in the 1886 edition. See Cooley, L. C. A Guide to Elementary Chemistry for Beginners, Ivion & Blakeman: New York, NY, 1886.
3. See, for example, Risteen, A. D. Molecules and the Molecular Theory of Matter, Ginn: Boston, MA, 1895, p 148.
4. Loschmidt, J. "Zur Grösse der Luftmolecüle," Sitz. K. Akad. Wiss. Wein: Math-Naturwiss, Kl. 1865, 52, 395-413.
5. Perrin, J. "Mouvement brownien et réalité moléculaire," Ann. chim. phys. 1909, 18, 1-144. The quote is on p 16. This review appeared in English as the book: Perrin, J. Brownian Movement and Molecular Reality, Taylor & Francis: London, 1910.
6. See Perrin, J. Les atomes, Alcan: Paris, 1913. An English translation appears as Perrin, J. Atoms, Constable: London, 1916.
7. Ramsay, W. Elements and Electrons, Harper: New York, NY, 1912, p 110.
8. Thus the 1921 edition of the popular college text by Harry Holmes has no index entry, and the 1930 edition mentions it only in a problem at the end of a chapter. Only in the 1936 edition is it fully integrated in the text. See Holmes, H. N., General Chemistry, 3rd ed., Macmillan: New York, NY, 1936. Likewise, it is missing from the 1918, 1926, and 1932 editions of Joel Hildebrand's text, appearing only in the 4th edition of 1940.
9. See Hildebrand, J. H. Principles of Chemistry, 4th ed., Macmillan: New York, NY, 1940.
10. Thus there is no index entry for the 1931, 1942, and 1954 editions of the popular high school text by Dull, et al. It does not appear until the 1958 edition. See Dull, C. E.; Metcalfe, H. C.; Williams, J. E. Modern Chemistry, Holt, Rinehart & Winston: New York, NY, 1958.