Standard atomic weight real life substances—for example, in pharmaceuticals and scientific research. Atomic weights are specific to single sources and samples of an element, such as the atomic weight of carbon in a particular bone from a particular archeological site. Standard atomic weight generalizes such values to the "range of atomic weights" which a chemist might expect to derive from many random samples from Earth. This range is the cause of the "interval notation" in some standard atomic weight values. Out of the 118 known chemical elements, 84 are stable and have this Earth-environment based value. Typically, such a value is, for example
Standard weight in fish common measures of condition used in fisheries assessment and management. Fulton’s condition factor, K, is another measure of an individual fish’s health that uses standard weight. Proposed by Fulton in 1904, it assumes that the standard weight of a fish is proportional to the cube of its length: formula_2 where "W" is the whole body wet weight in grams and "L" is the length in centimeters; the factor 100 is used to bring K close to a value of one. Standard weight in fish Standard weight in fish is the typical or expected weight at a given total length for