Updated Atomic Weights: Time to Review Our Table

Holden, Norman E.; Meyers, Fabienne

doi:10.1002/chemv.201600015

Title: Updated Atomic Weights: Time to Review Our Table

Abstract

Many readers might wonder what can be new about atomic weights and why such a subject deserves even a short paper in Chemistry Views magazine. However, despite common belief, atomic weights are not constants of nature. Scientists' ability to measure these values is regularly improving, so one would expect that the accuracy of these values should be improving with time.

Authors:

Tyler B. Coplen; Holden, Norman E. ^[1]; Meyers, Fabienne ^[2]

Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Boston Univ., Boston, MA (United States)

Publication Date:: Tue Apr 05 00:00:00 EDT 2016

Research Org.:: Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)

OSTI Identifier:: 1240712

Report Number(s):: BNL-111888-2016-JA
Journal ID: ISSN 2190-3735; R&D Project: EST-003-NEFA; KB0301041

Grant/Contract Number:: SC00112704

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: ChemViews

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 21; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 2190-3735

Publisher:: ChemPubSoc Europe

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS

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                    Tyler B. Coplen, Holden, Norman E., and Meyers, Fabienne. Updated Atomic Weights: Time to Review Our Table.  United States: N. p., 2016. 
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                    Tyler B. Coplen, Holden, Norman E., & Meyers, Fabienne. Updated Atomic Weights: Time to Review Our Table.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1002/chemv.201600015

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  author       = {Tyler B. Coplen and Holden, Norman E. and Meyers, Fabienne},

  abstractNote = {Many readers might wonder what can be new about atomic weights and why such a subject deserves even a short paper in Chemistry Views magazine. However, despite common belief, atomic weights are not constants of nature. Scientists' ability to measure these values is regularly improving, so one would expect that the accuracy of these values should be improving with time.},

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Figure 1: Variation in atomic weight with mole fraction of ⁷Li of some lithium-bearing materials (modified from [ref. 3]). Alternative names for the mole fraction of ⁷Li are isotopic abundance of ⁷Li, the ⁷Li fraction, and the ⁷Li amount fraction.

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