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What is Nitrogen rule?

Definition 32.4 University Chemistry — Year 2 · Chapter 32 — Mass Spectrometry and Atomic Spectroscopy

The nitrogen rule states that a molecule has an odd nominal mass (the sum of the mass numbers of its most abundant isotopes) if and only if it contains an odd number of nitrogen atoms.

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