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Abundance
01
a large quantity or amount of something
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Examples
The garden was filled with an abundance of blooming flowers in the spring.
02
(in chemistry) the relative amount of an element present in the Earth's crust, expressed as a percentage of total crustal mass or in parts per million
Examples
The abundance of oxygen in the Earth's crust is around 46%.
03
(in physics) the proportion of atoms of a specific isotope of an element relative to the total number of atoms of all its isotopes
Examples
The abundance of carbon-12 in nature is much higher than that of carbon-13.
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