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From: alexw@miracle.intel.com (Alex Witkowski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Equation Library Periodic Table error?
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Date: 6 Nov 90 21:43:25 GMT
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I believe the atomic weight on the periodic table is a weighted average
of all the various isotopes.  They are weighted by their relative abundance.
I don't know what they do for elements which do not naturally occur.

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