Is formula mass measured in atomic mass units (amu)?

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anor277
Sep 12, 2017

It could be.......

Explanation:

....but most of the time we report formula mass in grams... Chemists usually work in gram quantities, and there is a relationship between #"amu"# and #"grams"#; the constant of proportionality is #"Avogadro's number"#....where #6.022xx10^24*"amu"~=1*g#

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