Abstract

An account is given of the historical development of Avogadro's hypothesis, and of the principal methods of determining Avogadro's constant which have been used over the past 200 years. These include the kinetic theory of gases, Brownian motion, measurement of the electron charge, black-body radiation, alpha particle emission, and X-ray measurements.

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