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Answer: Si (choice D)</h3>
This is the element Silicon.
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Explanation:
First convert each percentage to its decimal form.
For example, 92.2297% converts to 0.922297 after moving the decimal point two spots to the left.
After doing that, multiply those decimal values with their respective atomic mass unit (amu) values.
- 27.9769 * 0.922297 = 25.8030109393
- 28.9765 * 0.046832 = 1.357027448
- 29.9738 * 0.030872 = 0.9253511536
Then we add up the results
25.8030109393 + 1.357027448 + 0.9253511536 = 28.0853895409
That rounds to about 28.085
Then look at the periodic table to see the atomic mass of Cobalt (Co), Aluminum (Al), Nickel (Ni) and Silicon (Si). The mass values listed in the periodic table are weighted averages of all the isotopes. The units for the mass are still in amu.
- Cobalt = 58.933
- Aluminum = 26.982
- Nickel = 58.693
- Silicon = 28.085
We have a match with silicon, showing that <u>choice D</u> is the final answer.
Sr will always have 38 protons because that is its atomic number. Normally Sr has 38 protons and 49 neutrons yielding an atomic mass of 87. unless you are dealing with an isotope of Strontium in which 3 additional neutrons would give you the 53 neutrons in your answer, (38p, 52n).
The test for this is fairly simple.
We take a glowing match or splint near the gas sample, if the glow intensifies, oxygen is present.
If a lit splint or match goes out with a popping sound, this means that hydrogen is present.
Sir Joseph John Thomson OM PRS (18 December 1856 – 30 August 1940) was a British physicist and Nobel Laureate in Physics, credited with the discovery of the electron, the first subatomic particle to be discovered.
