Appendix -II

Definitions and symbols of the seven base units of the International System of Units (SI)
Base Quantity

Unit

Symbol

Length

metre

Mass

kilogram

kg

Time

second

Electric current

ampere

Thermodynamic

kelvin

temperature

Amount of substance

mole

Luminous intensity

candela

mol

cd

Definition
The metre is the length of path
travelled by light in vacuum during
a time interval of 1/299 792 458* of
a second (17th CGPM, 1983).
The kilogram is the unit of mass; it
is equal to the mass of the
international prototype of the
kilogram (3rd CGPM, 1901).
The second is the duration of
9192631770 periods of the radiation
corresponding to the transition
between the two hyperfine levels of
the ground state of the caesium-133
atom (13th CGPM, 1967).
The ampere is that constant current
which, if maintained in two straight
parallel conductors of infinite
length, of negligible circular crosssection, and placed 1 metre apart
in vacuum, would produce between
these conductors a force equal to
2 10-7 Newton per metre of length
(9th CGPM, 1948).
The kelvin, unit of thermodynamic
temperature, is the fraction 1/
273.16 of the thermodynamic
temperature of the triple point of
water (13th CGPM, 1967).
The mole is the amount of
substance of a system which
contains as many elementary
entities as there are atoms in 0.012
kilogram of carbon-12. When the
mole is used, the elementary
entities must be specified and may
be atoms, molecules, ions,
electrons, other particles, or
specified groups of such particles
(14th CGPM, 1971).
The candela is the luminous
intensity, in a given direction, of a
source that emits monochromatic
radiation of frequency 540 1012
hertz and that has a radiant
intensity in that direction of (1/683)
watt per steradian (16 th CGPM,
1979).

* 299 792 458 m/s is the velocity of light vacuum

D EFINITIONS

AND

S YMBOLS

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Appendix -III

Elements, their Symbol, Atomic Number and

Molar Mass
Element

Actinium
Aluminium
Americium
Antimony
Argon
Arsenic
Astatine
Barium
Berkelium
Beryllium
Bismuth
Bohrium
Boron
Bromine
Cadmium
Caesium
Calcium
Californium
Carbon
Cerium
Chlorine
Chromium
Cobalt
Copper
Curium
Dubnium
Dysprosium
Einsteinium
Erbium
Europium
Fermium
Fluorine
Francium
Gadolinium
Gallium
Germanium
Gold
Hafnium
Hassium
Helium
Holmium
Hydrogen
Indium
Iodine
Iridium
Iron
Krypton
Lanthanum
Lawrencium
Lead
Lithium
Lutetium
Magnesium
Manganese
Meitneium
Mendelevium

Symbol

Atomic
Number

Molar
mass/
(g mol1)

Element

Ac
Al
Am
Sb
Ar
As
At
Ba
Bk
Be
Bi
Bh
B
Br
Cd
Cs
Ca
Cf
C
Ce
Cl
Cr
Co
Cu
Cm
Db
Dy
Es
Er
Eu
Fm
F
Fr
Gd
Ga
Ge
Au
Hf
Hs
He
Ho
H
In
I
Ir
Fe
Kr
La
Lr
Pb
Li
Lu
Mg
Mn
Mt
Md

89
13
95
51
18
33
85
56
97
4
83
107
5
35
48
55
20
98
6
58
17
24
27
29
96
105
66
99
68
63
100
9
87
64
31
32
79
72
108
2
67
1
49
53
77
26
36
57
103
82
3
71
12
25
109
101

227.03
26.98
(243)
121.75
39.95
74.92
210
137.34
(247)
9.01
208.98
(264)
10.81
79.91
112.40
132.91
40.08
251.08
12.01
140.12
35.45
52.00
58.93
63.54
247.07
(263)
162.50
(252)
167.26
151.96
(257.10)
19.00
(223)
157.25
69.72
72.61
196.97
178.49
(269)
4.00
164.93
1.0079
114.82
126.90
192.2
55.85
83.80
138.91
(262.1)
207.19
6.94
174.96
24.31
54.94
(268)
258.10

Mercury
Molybdenum
Neodymium
Neon
Neptunium
Nickel
Niobium
Nitrogen
Nobelium
Osmium
Oxygen
Palladium
Phosphorus
Platinum
Plutonium
Polonium
Potassium
Praseodymium
Promethium
Protactinium
Radium
Radon
Rhenium
Rhodium
Rubidium
Ruthenium
Rutherfordium
Samarium
Scandium
Seaborgium
Selenium
Silicon
Silver
Sodium
Strontium
Sulphur
Tantalum
Technetium
Tellurium
Terbium
Thallium
Thorium
Thulium
Tin
Titanium
Tungsten
Ununbium
Ununnilium
Unununium
Uranium
Vanadium
Xenon
Ytterbium
Yttrium
Zinc
Zirconium

Symbol

Atomic
Number

Hg
Mo
Nd
Ne
Np
Ni
Nb
N
No
Os
O
Pd
P
Pt
Pu
Po
K
Pr
Pm
Pa
Ra
Rn
Re
Rh
Rb
Ru
Rf
Sm
Sc
Sg
Se
Si
Ag
Na
Sr
S
Ta
Tc
Te
Tb
Tl
Th
Tm
Sn
Ti
W
Uub
Uun
Uuu
U
V
Xe
Yb
Y
Zn
Zr

80
42
60
10
93
28
41
7
102
76
8
46
15
78
94
84
19
59
61
91
88
86
75
45
37
44
104
62
21
106
34
14
47
11
38
16
73
43
52
65
81
90
69
50
22
74
112
110
111
92
23
54
70
39
30
40

Molar
mass/
(g mol1)
200.59
95.94
144.24
20.18
(237.05)
58.71
92.91
14.0067
(259)
190.2
16.00
106.4
30.97
195.09
(244)
210
39.10
140.91
(145)
231.04
(226)
(222)
186.2
102.91
85.47
101.07
(261)
150.35
44.96
(266)
78.96
28.08
107.87
22.99
87.62
32.06
180.95
(98.91)
127.60
158.92
204.37
232.04
168.93
118.69
47.88
183.85
(277)
(269)
(272)
238.03
50.94
131.30
173.04
88.91
65.37
91.22

The value given in parenthesis is the molar mass of the isotope of largest known half-life.

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