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ATOMIC MASS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(chemistry) the mass of an atom of a chemical element expressed in atomic mass units
Synonyms:
atomic mass; atomic weight; relative atomic mass
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("atomic mass" is a kind of...):
mass (the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field)
Domain category:
chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "atomic mass"):
combining weight; eq; equivalent; equivalent weight (the atomic weight of an element that has the same combining capacity as a given weight of another element; the standard is 8 for oxygen)
meq; milliequivalent (one-thousandth of an equivalent)
