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1Chemistry::Isotope version 0.11
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4This module contains the exact mass data from the table of the isotopes.
5It has an exportable function, isotope_mass, which returns the mass
6of an atom in mass units given its mass number (A) and atomic number (Z); and
7a function isotope_abundance which returns a table with the natural abundance
8of the isotopes given an element symbol.
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10The table of the masses includes 2931 nuclides and is taken from
11L<http://ie.lbl.gov/txt/awm95.txt> (G. Audi and A.H. Wapstra, Nucl. Phys. A595,
12409, 1995)
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14The table of natural abundances includes 288 nuclides and is taken from
15the Commission on Atomic Weights and Isotopic Abundances report for the
16International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry in Isotopic Compositions of
17the Elements 1989, Pure and Applied Chemistry, 1998, 70, 217.
18L<http://www.iupac.org/publications/pac/1998/pdf/7001x0217.pdf>
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21CHANGES SINCE VERSION 0.10
22 - Added natural abundance table
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24INSTALLATION
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26To install this module type the following:
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28 perl Makefile.PL
29 make
30 make test
31 make install
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33DEPENDENCIES
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35This module requires these other modules and libraries:
36 - Test::More (already a core module since perl 5.7.3)
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38COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
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40Copyright (C) 2005 Ivan Tubert-Brohman <itub@cpan.org>
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42This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
43it under the same terms as Perl itself.
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