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Carbon occurs in nature as a mixture of carbon-12 and carbon-132. the average atomic mass of carbon is 12.011. what is the percentage abundance of carbon -12 in nature? |
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Answer» SOLUTION :Let x be the PERCENTAGE abundance of CARBON-12: then (100-x) will be the percentage abundance of carbon-13. THEREFORE, `(12X)/(100)+(13(100-x))/(100)=12.011` or `12x+1300-13x=1201.1` or `x=98.9` Abundance of carbon -12 is 98.9%. |
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