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CHEMISTRY FROM 4 SCIENCE

CHAPTER 2 :THE MOLE CONCEPT AND RELATED STUDIES

RELATIVE ATOMIC MASS

The relative atomic mass shows how heavy an atom of an element is compared with another atom.Originally, the relative atomic mass of an element was defined as the ratio of the mass of one atom of an element compared to the mass of one atom of hydrogen.

Relative atomic mass=mass of one atom of the element/mass of one atom of hydrogen

par Claude Foumtum