Thank you for bringing to my attention the recent International Union of Pure & Applied Chemistry report “Atomic weights of the elements 2009” (C&EN, Dec. 20 ...
Ytterbium is a bit lighter than previously thought: Its standard atomic weight is now 173.045, down from 173.054, as approved by the International Union of Pure & Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) in August.
One hundred years ago the Harvard University chemist Theodore William Richards was awarded the 1914 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his accurate determination of the atomic weights of many elements. This ...