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To: BenKenobi
You’re switching between atomic weight and atomic mass? Interesting.

OK. One more lesson in chemistry. Are you getting tired from digging that hole?

Definition: Atomic mass or atomic weight is the average mass of atoms of an element, calculated using the relative abundance of isotopes in a naturally-occurring element.

Also Known As: Atomic Weight

79 posted on 12/15/2010 9:04:22 PM PST by SeeSac
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To: SeeSac

One, Mass and weight aren’t the same thing.

Two Relative atomic mass is the mass of the ratio of CL 35- CL 37. It has no meaning outside of the expected ratio which can very significantly.


83 posted on 12/15/2010 9:08:01 PM PST by BenKenobi (Obama's book of the month, Herman Melville's Killin' Whitey)
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