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RELATIVE MOLECULAR MASS
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
(chemistry) the sum of the relative atomic masses of the constituent atoms of a molecule
Synonyms:
molecular weight; relative molecular mass
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("relative molecular mass" is a kind of...):
mass (the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field)
Domain category:
chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)