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The first glass bottles were produced in Mesopotamia around 1500 B.C., and in the Roman Empire in around 1 AD. [1] America's glass bottle and glass jar industry was born in the early 1600s, when settlers in Jamestown built the first glass-melting furnace.
PepsiCo introduced the first two-liter sized soft drink bottle in 1970. [1] Motivated by market research conducted by new marketing vice president John Sculley (who would later be known for heading Apple Inc. from 1983 to 1993), [2] the bottle and the method of its production were designed by a team led by Nathaniel Wyeth of DuPont, who received the patent in 1973. [3]
Since the definition of the gram was not mathematically tied to that of the dalton, the number of molecules per mole N A (the Avogadro constant) had to be determined experimentally. The experimental value adopted by CODATA in 2010 is N A = 6.022 141 29 (27) × 10 23 mol −1. [16] In 2011 the measurement was refined to 6.022 140 78 (18) × 10 ...