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Mustafa Direk

Why Fluorine mass is 18.99, not 19 exactly?

Croren Rsps  Follow
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_binding_energy#Binding_energy_for_atoms

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Brianna Cashaw  Follow
Why should it be exactly 19? The only isotope with an exact mass is C-12, and that's because we defined it to be so.

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Arshu Khan  Follow
also you are wrong about the atomic mass of deuterium it is 2.01.

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Bella Jackie's Space  Follow
There are two reasons !!
1. Mass Defect (Search nuclear binding energy )
    Even you don't have to go through this reason to disprove that F-19 Can have whole no. value of atomic mass. There is much simpler reason which is 2nd one .

2. Proton and neutron don't have exactly the same mass .  since  F-19 doesn't contain protons and neutrons in the multiples of the as it contain in case of C-12 .

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Darshan Aryal  Follow
In reason 2, you should compare neutron with proton+electron.

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Bob Mouk  Follow
by the way second reason has it's drawback too.
Eg. mass of Mg-24 is 23.985 amu .

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Charles Stuart  Follow
Quote from:
In reason 2, you should compare neutron with proton+electron.

Agreed .

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