Beanium Lab

We completed a lab in class today to deepen our knowledge and practice our skills of solving average atomic mass. The scenario we were given had us conducting follow up experiments on a newly discovered element, "Beanium", which uniquely has atoms that are very large and isotopes can be sorted by hand. My lab partner and I counted total number of atoms in the sample, then sorted the atoms by isotope, counting the number of atoms for each isotope, and determined mass using a scale. Using this information, we calculated average mass for each isotope by dividing the number of atoms for each isotope by the total mass of each isotope. After, we calculated the percent abundance by dividing the number of atoms for each isotope by the number of atoms on the whole sample. We then filled in the average mass and percent abundance of each isotope into the equation for average atomic mass. This is found in an earlier post of mine, Isotopes, it also provides a little more background information about the whole process of finding atomic mass.

Materials for lab