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OpenStudy (anonymous):

why are only the masses of the protons and nutrons calculated in the relative mass of an element

OpenStudy (jfraser):

calculations have shown the electron to weigh about 1/2000 as much as a single proton, so its mass is just about irrelevant to the overall mass of the atom

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