Avogadro
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Avogadro is an Italian surname, derived from avogaro, a Venetian term for a diocese official (equivalent to avvocato, advocatus, "advocate"). In 1389, bishop Nicolò Beruti, made the office of avogaro hereditary, and a number of noble families with the name Avogaro or Avogadro developed over the following centuries, in Brescia, Vercelli and Treviso. Albert Avogadro (d. 1214), canon lawyer and Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Amedeo Avogadro (1776–1856), chemist. Named after him are: Avogadro constant Avogadro's law, an ideal gas law Avogadro project, a project to base the standard kilogram mass on the Avogadro constant, rather than an arbitrary block of metal Avogadro (crater), lunar crater Avogadro (software), molecular editor Lucia Albani Avogadro (1534–1568), poet Oscar Avogadro (1951–2010), lyricist
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