atomic weight
Noun
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Noun
atomic weight (plural atomic weights)
- (physics) Former term for the more specific relative atomic mass.
- 1922, Leicester F. Hamilton, Calculations of Analytical Chemistry, page 38:
- The equivalent weight of an element or compound is that weight equivalent in reactive power to one atomic weight of hydrogen.
- (physics) A term used to represent the mean relative atomic mass of an element in nature, as distinct from the relative atomic mass of a single isotope.
- French: poids atomique
- German: Atomgewicht
- Italian: peso atomico
- Portuguese: peso atómico, peso atômico
- Russian: атомный вес
- Spanish: peso atómico
- French: poids atomique, masse atomique, masse atomique relative
- Russian: атомная масса
- Spanish: peso atómico
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