Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Beanium Lab

In class today, we conducted a lab with a made up atom called Beanium. We had 4 different isotopes (red, black, white, pinto). The number of atoms in each isotope, total mass of the isotopes, average mass of the isotope, and the percent abundance were all found.

Here is our data table:


Isotope
# of atoms of this isotope present
Total mass of all the atoms of this isotope
Avg. mass of this isotope
% abundance of this isotope
White beanium
79
23.33 amu
.295 amu
40.9%
Black beanium
60
11.88 amu
.198 amu
31.3%
Red beanium
39
13.85 amu
.355 amu
20.2%
Pinto beanium
15
5.17 amu
.345 amu
7.78%

And here is a picture of Kendall doing the lab and sorting out the different "isotopes" :)
Here is a helpful link if you're lost on how to calculate all this: http://www.chemteam.info/Mole/AvgAtomicWt-Reverse.html

1 comment:

  1. There I am!! When I was doing the lab I thought that it was actually extremely easy yet helped a lot. Do you agree with a lot of our friends when they say this too?

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