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Counting atoms

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Enrico Massa and Giovanni Mana expound on the substance of the Avogadro constant.

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  1. Enrico Massa and Giovanni Mana are at the Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica, Strada delle Cacce 91, 10135 Torino, Italy,

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Massa, E., Mana, G. Counting atoms. Nature Phys 12, 522 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3754

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