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- From: gezelter@sam.cchem.berkeley.edu (Dan Gezelter)
- Newsgroups: alt.cesium
- Subject: Re: More Cesium facts.
- Date: 10 Sep 1992 17:05:49 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- In article <1992Sep10.010152.26565@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>, David Howard asks:
-
- > I have known for years that the atomic weight of Cesium is 132.90543,
- >I'm sure we all know that... The real question at hand is can any of you
- >net people come up with any more precision than that? Next digit? Next ten
- >digits?!?
- > I'll be waiting to hear from you.
-
- My best guess is that the atomic weight is limited in precision by
- the precision of the measurements of the natural abundance of the
- various isotopes. We are all aware, I'm sure, that atomic weight is
- given by the formula:
- __
- aw = > iw * na
- -- i i
- i
- where iw is the isotopic weight and na is the natural abundance of
- that isotope.
- 133
- The CRC table of isotopes only lists an abundance for the Cs
- isotope, which has a mass of 132.9051 amu. The abundance listed is
- 100% but the abundances are only given to 0.1% precision. The only
- other isotope with an appreciable half life is Cs(135) which has a
- half-life of 3*10^6 years. No abundance is listed, however. Does
- anyone have a more comprehensive list of isotopes than the CRC table
- so that we can calculate the atomic mass from the real data?
-
- --Dan
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