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    RELATIVE ATOMIC MASS

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    (chemistry) the mass of an atom of a chemical element expressed in atomic mass unitsplay

    Synonyms:

    atomic mass; atomic weight; relative atomic mass

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

    Hypernyms ("relative 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 "relative 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)

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