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he didn't deny avogadro's number so much as say that its definition was somewhat arbitrary. IIRC he made the comment before the modern redefinition of SI units
by dekhn 2y ago
he didn't deny avogadro's number so much as say that its definition was somewhat arbitrary.
IIRC he made the comment before the modern redefinition of SI units. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_revision_of_the_SI#Mass_and_the_Avogadro_constant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_revision_of_the_SI#Mass_a... for more details about the ongoing issues associated with absolute numeric counts of elements and their association with mass.
- churchturing 2y agothis is useful context, thanks. would edit my prior comment but it is no longer editable. after some more research it seems his comments on the matter were reasonable