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The atomic masses of elements are generally not whole numbers. Explain why.​

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The atomic masses of most elements are not whole numbers, because they are a weighted average of the mass numbers of the different isotopes of that element, with respect to their abundances in nature.

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Because elements have isotopes.

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So the atomic mass is the average of an element's isotopes.

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