ATOMIC MASS amp; ISOTOPES：原子质量amp；同位素.pptVIP

ATOMIC MASS ISOTOPES Atomic mass is a relative scale Similar to comparing the distances between Cincinnati to Columbus and Cincinnati to Toledo It is twice as far to Toledo If we set the distance to Columbus as our standard making it 12; Then the distance to Toledo would be 24 Chemists originally used Oxygen as the standard making it 16 but… Today we use Carbon-12 Remember that carbon-12 indicates a specific isotope of carbon Since the mass of hydrogen atoms is 1/12 that carbon-12 we set the Atomic Mass of Hydrogen to 1 Likewise, Magnesium atoms are twice as massive as C-12, hence Mg = 24 a.