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atomic weight: Meaning and Definition of
atom'ic weight'
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— Chem. Chem.
- the average weight of an atom of an element, formerly based on the weight of one hydrogen atom taken as a unit or on the weight of an oxygen atom, but after 1961 based on the weight of the carbon-12 atom. Abbr.: at. wt.
