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THE redetermination of the masses of several of the light nuclei announced recently by Aston1 has led to mass-spectroscopic values which are in good agreement with those deduced from atomic transformation data2. The accuracy of these new masses is probably very high, and it is of interest to recalculate the masses of the other light atoms from the very accurate transformation data now available. The accompanying table gives the masses obtained in this way.Elements given in brackets are radioactive, and the masses are known only very approximately. Values marked with an asterisk are those given by Aston, the mass of 14N being privately communicated and not yet published. The other masses have been calculated through appropriate transformation data. No estimate of the accuracy is given, but it is improbable that the error can exceed 0.0003 units in any case.
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OLIPHANT, M. Masses of Light Atoms. Nature 137, 396–397 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137396a0
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