Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Beanium Lab

Today in Chemistry, we discovered a new element called Beanium. There were four different isotopes. We counted the number of each isotope and then calculated the percentage commonness of each isotope.. To calculate the mass number of each isotope, we weighed all the beans of one isotope together and then took the average mass of each different isotope. By using the mass of each isotope and the each isotope's percentage out of all Beanium isotopes, we then calculated the average mass number of the beanium atom.
To learn how to calculate the average atomic mass go to ChemTeam's website.

1 comment:

  1. Nice pic!! I thought your description of the lab was very insightful, and that link is a great touch! What was your favorite part of the lab? Did it help you understand chapter 3 more?

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