BRAINCAKECalculating Relative Atomic Mass
Neon has two isotopes. 90% of naturally occurring neon is neon-20 and 10% is neon-22.
Relative Atomic Mass = (0.9 × 20) + (0.1 × 22) = 20.2
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Key terms in this lesson
- Isotopes
- Atoms of the same element with the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons.
- Relative atomic mass
- The weighted mean mass of all the isotopes of an element compared to one-twelfth the mass of a carbon-12 atom.
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- Relative Isotopic Mass
- Relative Atomic Mass
- The Mass Spectrometer
- Chemical Formulae
- Polyatomic ions
- Chemical Equations
- Electron Shells
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