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While searching for various atomic mass units, scientists initially took 1/16 of the mass of a naturally occurring oxygen atom as one unit. State two reasons for this.

While searching for various atomic mass units, scientists initially took 1/16 of the mass of a naturally occurring oxygen atom as one unit. The two reasons are:

i. According to them, oxygen reacted with a large number of elements and formed compounds.


ii. The given atomic mass unit gave masses of most of the elements as whole numbers.


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