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ISOTOPES AND ATOMIC MASS

MODEL 1: Make Isotopes

Open the Isotopes and Atomic Mass simulation


http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/isotopes-and-atomic-mass

Play with the “Make Isotopes” tab of the simulation for a few minutes and then answer the
following questions.

1. What particles determine the mass number?

2. Why is mass number always a whole number?

3. One isotope of carbon (C) has exactly the same mass number and atomic mass since it was
used as the definition of the atomic mass unit (amu). Which isotope is it and what is its
atomic mass?

4. What is the approximate mass of one proton? __________amu

5. What is the approximate mass of one neutron? __________amu

6. Look at 3 or 4 other atoms using the simulation. Do any of them have a whole number for
atomic mass?

MODEL 2: Mix Isotopes

Play with the “Mix Isotopes” tab for a few minutes, then answer the following questions.

1. What are the factors that affect the average atomic mass of a mixture of isotopes?

2. Beryllium (Be) and Fluorine (F) have only one stable isotope. Use the sim and the periodic
table to complete the following table:
Average mass of 2 Average mass of 3 Atomic mass
Element Mass of 1 atom
atoms (sim) atoms (sim) (periodic table)
Beryllium 9.01218 amu
(Be)
Fluorine 18.99840 amu
(F)

3. Why are all the values in each row of the table above the same?

ISOTOPES AND ATMOIC MASS 1


4. Lithium has only two stable isotopes. Use the sim to determine the following:
a. Atomic mass of lithium-6 = __________________amu
b. Atomic mass of lithium-7 = __________________amu
c. Average atomic mass of a sample containing three lithium-6 atoms and two lithium-7
atoms. ______________amu
d. Is the average atomic mass you just determined closer to the mass of lithium-6 or
lithium-7? Explain

5. Describe a method to calculate the average atomic mass of the sample in the previous
question using only the atomic masses of lithium-6 and lithium-7 without using the
simulation.

6. Test your method by creating a few sample mixtures of isotopes with the sim and see if your
method correctly predicts the average atomic mass of that sample from only the atomic
masses of the isotopes and the quantity of each isotope. Use the table below to track your
progress.

Average atomic mass


Atomic mass and Average atomic mass of
Element of sample
quantity of each isotope sample (from simulation)
(calculate yourself)

MODEL 3: Nature’s mix of isotopes

1. Using the sim, examine “Nature’s mix of isotopes” for several different elements. If you
assumed 100 total atoms in a sample, how could you relate the % values shown in the sim
into a number you could use for your calculation of average atomic mass?

ISOTOPES AND ATOMIC MASS 2


2. Calculate the atomic mass of each of the following elements using your method from above.
Test your answer using the Nature’s mix of isotopes and the periodic table. Keep going until
you can get two in a row right.

Check answer
Isotope 1 Isotope 2 Isotope 3
with sim
Calculated
Mass Mass Mass average
Element %age %age %age Yes No
(amu) (amu) (amu) atomic mass
(amu)

Hydrogen 1.007 99.98 2.01410 0.011 - -

Silicon 27.97 92.22 28.9764 4.685 29.97377 3.092

Nitrogen 14.00 99.63 15.0001 0.364 - -

Argon 35.96 0.336 37.9627 0.063 39.96238 99.60

Calculations / Rough work:

ISOTOPES AND ATOMIC MASS 3


EXERCISES
1. Titanium has five common isotopes:
46Ti (8.00%), mass= 45.953 amu
47 Ti (7.80%), mass= 46.952 amu
48Ti (73.40%), mass= 47.947 amu
49Ti (5.50%), mass= 48.948 amu
50Ti (5.30%), mass = 49.945 amu

Calculate the average atomic mass of titanium.

2. The atomic mass of boron is 10.81 amu. Boron has two isotopes: Boron-10 has a mass of
10.01 amu. Boron-11 has a mass of 11.01 amu. What is the %age of each isotope in boron?
(check your answer with the simulation)

3. A certain sample of rubidium has just two isotopes, 85Rb (mass = 84.911amu) and
87Rb (mass = 86.909amu). The atomic mass of this sample is 86.231 amu. What are the

percentages of the isotopes in this sample?

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