Physics of Everyday Phenomena
Physics of Everyday Phenomena
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ISBN: 9781259894008
Author: W. Thomas Griffith, Juliet Brosing Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Whether the law of definite proportions can be explained by a model in which different atoms of the same element have widely varying masses.

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