why oxygen was considered as a reference elements to find atomic mass
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Oxygen was chosen because it forms chemical compounds with many other elements, simplifying determination of their atomic weights. Sixteen was chosen because it was the lowest whole number that could be assigned to oxygen and still have an atomic weight for hydrogen that was not less than 1.
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it reacts with large number of elements and formed compounds this automic mass unit gave masses of most of the elements are whole numbers
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