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Isotopic Composition and Accurate Mass

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In the context of general chemistry we rarely pay attention to the different isotopes of the individual elements involved in a reaction. For instance, the molecular mass of tribromomethane, CHBr3, is usually calculated as 252.73 g mol−1 on the basis of relative atomic mass from the Periodic Table.

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Gross, J.H. (2011). Isotopic Composition and Accurate Mass. In: Mass Spectrometry. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10711-5_3

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