Measuring the molar mass of silicon for a better avogadro constant: Reduced uncertainty

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 566-571

  Gonfiantini, Roberto ^a   De Bièvre, Paul ^a   Valkiers, Staf ^a   Taylor, Philip D P ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Avogadro constant; Desorption; Gas mass spectrometry; Memory effects; Molar mass of silicon

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; CHEMICAL CLEANING; DESORPTION; INTAKE SYSTEMS; ISOTOPES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SILICON COMPOUNDS;

AVOGADRO'S CONSTANT; GAS MASS SPECTROMETRY; ISOTOPIC EFFECTS;

SILICON;

EID: 0031118912     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.571916     Document Type: Article

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