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 ...

For the first time those little numbers that appear beneath some of the commonest elements in the periodic table boxes are about to change from a single value to an interval of numbers An ...

I was surprised that C&EN would devote two columns to the letter by Harvey Carroll on the matter of atomic weight versus atomic mass (C&EN, Jan. 24, page 4). I realize the majority of the informed ...

The atomic mass of carbon is 12, while the atomic mass of CO2 is 44. Therefore, to convert from gigatonnes carbon to gigatonnes of carbon dioxide, you simply multiply 44 over 12. In other words, 1 ...

A mole is a measurement of a ‘batch’ of particles. It is easier to describe the number of moles of a substance rather than the number of atoms as atoms are very small. Relative atomic mass is the ...