Atomic Mass Unit -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

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Atomic Mass Unit

A unit of mass equal to the mass of a single atom of the most common isotope of carbon, , divided by 12,

An older definition was based on the mass of the a single atom of the most common isotope of oxygen, , divided by 16.

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