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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The average mass of an atom of an element, usually expressed relative to the mass of carbon 12, which is assigned 12 atomic mass units.
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- noun
Former term for the morespecific relative atomic mass . - noun A term used to represent the
mean relative atomic mass of anelement in nature, as distinct from the relative atomic mass of a singleisotope .
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- noun (chemistry) the mass of an atom of a chemical element expressed in atomic mass units
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