Question

why was oxygen is initially used as standard for Atomic mass​

Answer 1

oxygen was chosen initially as the atomic mass standard because

It forms compounds with almost every other element, and furthermore it forms binary compounds, with just oxygen and the element.

Atomic masses were determined by bulk chemical analysis for the first century of modern chemistry, so natural bulk oxygen was taken to have a mass of exactly 16.

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