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Mass no. is always whole number but atomis mass are generally fractional?explain

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Mass number is number of PROTONS and neutrons that cannot be fractional.
ATOMIC mass is ALSO equals to no. of protons +neutrons but it can be fractional because most of the elements occur as a mixture of ISOTOPES of different MASSES.
fractional atomic masses arise due to mass= total mass of all atoms /no. of atoms



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