Question

Vanadium has an atomic mass of 50.9415 amu. It has two common isotopes. One isotope has a mass of 50.9440 amu and a relative abundance of 99.75 %.
What is the abundance of the other isotope?
What is the mass of the other isotope?

Answer 1

Answer:

Average atomic mass of the  vanadium = 50.9415 amu

Isotope (I) of vanadium' s abundance = 99.75 %= 0.9975

Atomic mass of Isotope (I) of vanadium ,m= 50.9440 amu

Isotope (II) of vanadium' s abundance =(100%- 99.75 %) = 0.25 % = 0.0025

Atomic mass of Isotope (II) of vanadium ,m' = ?

Average atomic mass of vanadium =

m × abundance of isotope(I) + m' × abundance of isotope (II)

50.9415 amu =50.9440 amu× 0.9975 + m' × 0.0025

m'= 49.944 amu

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