Edward Wichers
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LOCATION: Kensington, MD, United States
Associate Director, National Bureau of Standards, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C., 1958–62; Chief, Division of Chemistry, 1948–58. Author of papers on chemical reagents, pure substances, and atomic weights.
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Atomic weight, ratio of the average mass of a chemical element’s atoms to some standard. Since 1961 the standard unit of atomic mass has been one-twelfth the mass of an atom of the isotope carbon-12. An isotope is one of two or more species of atoms of the same chemical element that have different…
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