The overall purpose of this lab was to find the average atomic mass of the element Candium, To do this we had to find the masses of each of the three isotopes, decimal abundances of the isotopes, and the percent abundance of the three isotopes. From these three calculations, we were able to plug them into the average atomic mass formula and get the average atomic mass.
Conclusions
1. The group we asked had an average atomic mass of 1.58 g while ours was 1.423 g. This difference might be because of a difference in the number of isotopes(M&Ms). The other group also could have had a number of different sized isotopes. There were also confusions between the pretzel and peanut isotopes.
2. The difference would be smaller. This is because if a bigger data set was used, more accurate results would show as the chance of error would decrease and there would be less differences between the decimal abundances.
3. No, but it would be similar. This is because the average atomic mass is a general value, calculating a value of which all of the isotopes' atomic mass is around. Hence, one Candium would be close or similar to the atomic mass and highly unlikely to have the same mass as there are many other isotopes included in the calculation.
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