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Lesson: Chapter 7 — Quantification of Elements and Compounds

7.1. Relative atomic mass 3 of 12

Question 3

What is used today as the atomic mass unit?

The right answer is the one marked above.

1/12 of the mass of a carbon-12 atom. The masses of all other atoms are measured against it.

The mass of a hydrogen atom was used for this in the past, but no longer. Taking the whole mass of the carbon atom is wrong too; it is a twelfth of it that is used.

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