Chemistry, asked by pleaseanswer8509, 1 year ago

Why is the atomic mass unit (amu), rather than the gram, used to express atomic mass?

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Answered by vrushu2005

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As the mass of an atom is very very small it would make it very difficult to denote its mass in grams so a small unit(amu) is used

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