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He definition "'oxygen' means an element having an atomic weight of 8 and an atomic number of 16" is an example of:

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Answer is: a theoretical definition. But this definition is wrong because oxygen has atomic number 8 and atomic weight 16.
Theoretical chemistry is part of chemistry which develops theoretical generalization. For example, atoms atomic and mass weight, chemical bonding, chemical reaction, potential energy, molecular orbitals.
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