The complete online text of The Atheist's Mass by Honoré de Balzac.

Had Balzac been a less masterful novelist, the disreputably profligate fraud in him might have overwhelmed his artistry. Still, the other Balzac, the artist, is tainted by his well-earned reputation for what has been called artistic license or dishonesty...

The French novelist Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was the first writer to use fiction to convey the total social scene prevailing within one country at a particular period in its history. Commonly regarded as the founder of social realism, he also...

This tutorial illustrates the most important definitions used in high-resolution mass spectrometry and clarifies the misconceptions surrounding some of the relevant terms used in this field, such as mass resolution, mass accuracy, and mass defect. Examples are given for recent advanced applications of accurate...

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Mass and weight represent different fundamental properties of matter, one a scalar (a real number) and one a vector, yet the terms are frequently confused. A casual inspection of canned food in a grocery aisle confirms this: A one-pound (weight)...