The definition deliberately specifies " An atomic weight…", as an element will have different atomic weights depending on the source | , which is not a quantity• The IUPAC International Union Of Pure And Applied Chemistry Commission on Isotopic Abundances and Atomic Weights in August 2007 that the standard atomic weights of the following elements would be revised new figures quoted here : 174 |
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976 494 700 22 4 | 0854 The estimation of the is complicated, especially as the is not necessarily symmetrical: the standard atomic weights are quoted with estimated symmetrical uncertainties, and the value for silicon is 28 |
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24Highly accurate atomic masses are available for virtually all non-radioactive nuclides, but isotopic compositions are both harder to measure to high precision and more subject to variation between samples | The term is usually used, without further qualification, to refer to the standard atomic weights published at regular intervals by the IUPAC and which are intended to be applicable to normal laboratory materials |
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The updated list of standard atomic weights is expected to be formally published in late 2008 | For example, from has a lower atomic weight than boron from , because of its different |
the term "relative atomic mass" should be reserved for the mass of a specific or , while "atomic weight" be used for the of the atomic masses over all the atoms in the sample;• The same argument could be made against "relative atomic mass" used in this sense.
The atomic masses of these nuclides are known to a precision of one part in 14 billion for 28 Si and about one part in one billion for the others | , and in the table below |
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The term "relative atomic mass" of the element may also be used to describe this physical quantity, and is synonymous with it | Objectors to the name usually prefer the term "relative atomic mass" not to be confused with |
, which is not a force• In reply, supporters of the term "atomic weight" point out among other arguments that• Atomic weights, unlike the masses of individual atoms, not to be confused with relative atomic mass , are not , but vary from sample to sample of elements that are not.
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