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mass number
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mass num·ber
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n. Physics
the total number of protons and neutrons in a nucleus.
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Masses in Mass Spectrometry: Balancing the Analytical Scales
Magazine article from: Spectroscopy; 11/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; Mass spectrometrists have been measuring masses in the ultrasmall...secrets through a number of well-known experiments...linking ultrasmall masses to the normal-mass world. A science...and billionths, and masses counted in the pico...
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Mass Calibration: Special Needs for Proteomics
Magazine article from: Spectroscopy; 2/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...in electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry (ESI-MS...fact that demand for higher mass calibrants is complemented in...mathematical operation in which the masses of a series of multiply charged...deconvoluted to produce a true mass spectrum (rather than an m...instrument operation, a large ...
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Mass tort class actions in the new millennium
Magazine article from: The Review of Litigation; 7/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...authorize class actions4 in a number of single-incident mass accident cases and a smaller number of mass exposure tort cases. Class...plaintiffs lawyers need, it's numbers. That's the cruel calculation behind a mass tort.7 2. A funny thing...
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 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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LATIN MASS RETURNS AMID PLEA FOR UNITY.(Main)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 1/8/1990; 700+ words
; ...Sampson was one of a number of Greenwich Catholics...petitioned the bishop for the masses. "I felt it was very...director of Return the Old Mass to Albany, which has pushed for the masses since 1988, was pleased...that in authorizing the masses Hubbard followed practices...Bishops. Sunday's ...
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Mass Spectrometry Forum: Higher Resolution Mass Analysis in Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry
Magazine article from: Spectroscopy; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...operate with essentially unit mass resolution at ion masses of a few thousand. Other instruments...discussion of why higher "mass resolution" is valuable...differentiate between ions of similar masses. Resolving power is the large number often misidentified as "resolution...x394;m, where m ...
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A mass accuracy sensitive probability based scoring algorithm for database searching of tandem mass spectrometry data.
Magazine article from: BMC Bioinformatics; 4/20/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...filtering product ions by high mass accuracy can further reduce...sensitive model implicitly takes mass accuracy into account during...determined by the accuracy of mass spectrometer. High accuracy...product ions, n match is the number of matched product ions, r...
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Mass appeal to Latin tradition; Young Catholics raise demand for a celebration that lifts the spirits.(PAGE ONE)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 10/28/2007; 700+ words
; ...the liturgy of the Tridentine Mass and has received as many as...celebration of the Tridentine Mass, usually teaches the rite to...September, it increased that number to 22 to meet the increased...celebration of the Tridentine Mass will increase the faith of many...
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Mass Analyzers: An Overview of Several Designs and Their Applications, Part II
Magazine article from: Spectroscopy; 12/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...applications of the most common mass analyzers used in bioanalytical...than those required for the mass selective instability scan...of ion stabilities upon the number of ions present in the trap...causing broadening of peaks, mass scale shifts, and loss in sensitivity...
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West Mass Bankshares and Bank of Western Mass comment.
PR Newswire; 10/11/1990; 700+ words
; ...840 per share. If West Mass shareholders elect to receive...transaction. Management of West Mass will elect to receive a to-be-agreed upon minimum number of shares of BWM holding company...BWM for each share of West Mass common stock will be the adjusted...
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 "Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)")
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Mass communication Fox Valley churches offer parishioners services in various native language.(Neighbor)
Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL); 4/7/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Algonquin is one of a growing number of foreign language services...a foreign country and go to Mass, you might recognize what...Diocese. "Even back when the Mass was said in Latin, it was common...traditional for them to celebrate Mass in their own language." Phelps...Italian, Lithuanian and ...
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Mass
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...different procedures. Inertial masses can be measured anywhere and...of gravity. Gravitational masses can be determined only in a...acceleration. are the two kinds of masses related? Experiments have...with the same gravitational mass have the same inertial mass...it contains — the ...
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Mass Spectrometry
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...basic principle underlying mass spectrometry was formulated...each with a slightly different mass, from a beam of neon ions...have slightly different atomic masses due to the presence of differing numbers of neutrons in the nucleus.) The first mass spectrometers were built in...
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Atomic Mass
Encyclopedia entry from: UXL Encyclopedia of Science
...exactly one-twelfth the mass of a carbon-12 atom...element with the same atomic number (same number of protons in their nuclei), but different atomic masses (different numbers of neutrons in their nuclei). Mass: Measure of the total...
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Mass Transportation
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
Mass Transportation Mass...system in which large numbers of people are carried...passengers at a time. Mass transit systems have a number of obvious advantages...desirable features of mass transit systems are balanced by a number of serious drawbacks...
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Mass Killers
Encyclopedia entry from: Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying
...One of the earliest examples of mass murder in the United States took...Since the Ywahoo Falls incident the number and examples of mass murders in the United States and...example of late-twentieth-century mass genocide occurred in 1993 when...
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