This is what happens when you try to create your own idea of something that was written down. Sometimes every detail isn't clear, and you shouldn't dwell on this, because nobody except the author himself can confirm that anything's right.
A unit of measurement is what it is defined to be. If the guy said it was based on the hydrogen atom, then that's what it is. Somebody just can't come along and change someone else's system, and say that there way is right.
If you think about it, what we do today isn't so different from the way Mendeleev thought of atomic mass. He used the hydrogen atom as a unit--one oxygen atom has a mass of sixteen hydrogens, and so forth. And the most common isotope of hydrogen has just one proton and no neutrons, so one hydrogen atom is about one amu.
Everybody needs to switch from the english system (even more arbitrary than metric) to metric first. If all you have ever used is the english measurement system you'll find that metric makes a lot of sense.
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Yeah, and that's one semiconductor that isn't going to crack.
Diamonds are forever after all.
This is what happens when you try to create your own idea of something that was written down. Sometimes every detail isn't clear, and you shouldn't dwell on this, because nobody except the author himself can confirm that anything's right.
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They can't do that!
I thought that was the time of National Lord of the Rings Week.
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Did you read this. Both ways are right.
A unit of measurement is what it is defined to be. If the guy said it was based on the hydrogen atom, then that's what it is. Somebody just can't come along and change someone else's system, and say that there way is right.
This article states that both ways are correct, but hydrogen being the basis was the original measurement.
Actually this is what it says:
If you think about it, what we do today isn't so different from the way Mendeleev thought of atomic mass. He used the hydrogen atom as a unit--one oxygen atom has a mass of sixteen hydrogens, and so forth. And the most common isotope of hydrogen has just one proton and no neutrons, so one hydrogen atom is about one amu.
That's the way it was intended to work.
I would if the link worked.
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Go here if you want more proof.
No. Go here and see for yourself.
No. Hydrogen is measured as 1 AMU, so atomic mass units are based on Hydrogen.
Yeah. Because the whole AMU (atomic mass units) scale and all the other elements are based on the weight of the hydrogen atom, anyway.
Everybody needs to switch from the english system (even more arbitrary than metric) to metric first. If all you have ever used is the english measurement system you'll find that metric makes a lot of sense.
This just shows how we all have something to be thankful for...
This may be the latest you've been up on thanksgiving.
i know, i almost wet myself until i saw that i watched this one like a hundred times.
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Don't they know they're getting themselves into trouble. Before you know it they're going to be mad at people who are sharing these videos.
I do remember. Those were the good old days.
Might as well start while you're young. Use emacs(and gcc while you're at it). Might as well go open source also.
i was going to by this book, but i found that it was making the car tires flat
Since it's not a planet, wouldn't it be more like a cousin than a brother.
It's nice to see that somebody's doing better than the russians.