Because masses expressed in scientific notation are difficult to work with, chemists have developed a method of measuring the mass of an atom using atomic mass units (amu) - chemists chose the carbon-12 atom as a standard of measurement, having exactly 12 atomic mass units - thus one atomic mass unit is defined as 1/12 the mass of a carbon-12 atom
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