Nominal mass

Nominal mass

The nominal mass is the integer mass of the most abundant naturally occurring stable isotope of an element. The nominal mass of a molecule is the sum of the nominal masses of the elements in its empirical formula.[1]

H2O = 18

See also

References

  1. ^ Yergey, James; David Heller, Gordon Hansen, Robert J. Cotter, and Catherlne Fenselau (1983). "Isotopic distributions in mass spectra of large molecules" (PDF). Analytical Chemistry 55 (2): 353–356. doi:10.1021/ac00253a037. http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~nedwards/teaching/BCHM676_Spring_2006/papers/ac00253a037.pdf. Retrieved 2007-09-04. 

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