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• Carbon has two isotopes, carbon- 12 and carbon- 13. Their atomic masses are 12
and 13.00335 and their percent abundance are 98.89 and 1.11, respectively. What is
the average atomic mass of carbon? Show your computation.​


Sagot :

Answer:

The average mass is simply a weighted average.

If we know the natural abundance (the natural abundance of an

isotope of an element is the percent of that isotope as it

occurs in a sample on earth) of all the isotopes and the mass

of all the isotopes we can find the average atomic mass. The

average atomic mass is simply a weighted average of the masses of all

the isotopes.

average mass C = (0.9889 x 12(exact) amu) + (0.0111 x 13.00335)

amu

= 11.8668 + 0.144337

= 12.011137185

12.01 amu

Explanation:

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