Custom isotopics specified as number densities only work on 'Custom' materials
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When defining a material from an existing material class but specifying custom isotopics with number densities, I get warning messages like the following and the custom isotopics are ignored.
You either specified a custom mass density or number densities (which implies a mass density) on
<Material: UraniumOxide>with custom isotopicsUO2. This has no effect on this Material class; you can only override mass density onCustommaterials. Consider switching to number fraction input. Continuing to use <Material: UraniumOxide> mass density.
To replicate the warnings, run armi.configure; o=armi.init(fName="c5g7-settings.yaml") inside armi/tests/tutorials/
This is coming up in the context of running the c5g7 benchmark case with the openmc plugin, so while I could redefine the custom isotopics with number fraction input, I think having the exact same numbers and input format as the reference makes sense and I'm not sure it's necessary to not allow overriding density with custom isotopics. So far I have renamed every material in c5g7-settings.py to "custom", but now I'm missing the useful data from the predefined materials like thermal scattering data.
Could armi override the density and warn the user that they're doing so rather than warning the user that they're trying and ignoring the custom isotopics?
There has been discussion on something similar in the past. Take a look at this: #535