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Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743—1794) French scientist

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The weighted mean of the masses of the neutral atoms of an element expressed in atomic weight units.

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in The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science Length: 858 words
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in A Dictionary of Genetics (7) Length: 20 words
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