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| IUPAC RECOMMENDATIONS 2013 |
| Average mass |
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| Mass of an ion or molecule weighted for its isotopic composition. |
| Related Term(s): monoisotopic mass, nominal mass |
| Reference(s):
IUPAC. Analytical Division. Compendium of Analytical Nomenclature (the Orange Book). Definitive Rules, 1979. Compiled by J. Inczdy, T. Lengyel, A. M. Ure. Blackwell Scientific Publications, Oxford (1997). On-line corrected version: http://www.iupac.org /publications/analytical compendium (2000). J. Yergey, D. Heller, G. Hansen, R. J. Cotter, C. Fenselau. Anal. Chem. 55, 353 (1983). (http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ac00253a037 ) |
| From Definitions of Terms Relating to Mass Spectrometry (IUPAC Recommendations 2013); DOI: 10.1351/PAC-REC-06-04-06 © IUPAC 2013. |
