Nitrogen has an average atomic mass of 14.00674. it has two isotopes, n-14 and n-15, with atomic masses of 14.0031 amu and 15.001 amu, respectively. what is the abundance of n-15?

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3 February, 13:49

Nitrogen has an average atomic mass of 14.00674. it has two isotopes, n-14 and n-15, with atomic masses of 14.0031 amu and 15.001 amu, respectively. what is the abundance of n-15?

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Rudy Stone · Answer 1

In this case, we are going to assume that there are 100 atoms to make things easier.

Let R% be the abundance of n-15. With this in mind, we calculate the abundance of n-14 to be 100%-R%

14.0031 * (100-R) % + 15.001 * R% = 14.00674

In this case, we can delete or ignore the % sign since we do not want to carry it around, however, we need to keep in mind that the final answer is in %

14.0031 * (100-R) + 15.001 * R = 14.00674

1400.31-14.0031R+15.001R=1400.674

0.9979R=0.364

R=0.3648

Then, the abundance of n-15 is 0.3648%