Thank you for bringing to my attention the recent International Union of Pure & Applied Chemistry report “Atomic weights of the elements 2009” (C&EN, Dec. 20 ...

Nineteen elements on the periodic table — including gold, cadmium, arsenic and aluminum — are getting their atomic weights adjusted. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) ...

IN a paper on the absorption of Röntgen rays (Journal de Physique, p. 653, 1901) M. Benoist shows the connection between the transparency to X-rays of elementary substances and the atomic weight of ...

IT is just a hundred years ago that the atomic weight of zirconium was determined by Berzelius. The method used, namely the analysis of the sulphate, yielded too low a value for the atomic weight, the ...

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