what is carbon 12 atom why it has choosen as refernce
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As it is smallest atom
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Physicists picked the pureisotope Oxygen-16, because they tended to make their measurements on the basis of mass spectrometry. ... Instead of using either Hydrogen, or Oxygen as the standard, theisotope of Carbon with 6 protons and 6 neutrons in its nucleus (Carbon-12) was given a mass of exactly12
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