Atomic Structure - Isotopoes

Question 1

what are isotopes?

Answer 1

Atoms with same number of protons but different number of neutrons
They are the same element with same Atomic Number but a different mass number.

Question 2

What is identical and different with isotopes?

Answer 2

Differences:
Different masses (different relative isotopic mass)

similarities:
Have the SAME chemical properties because they have the same outer electron configuration

Question 3

What is the relative molecular mass?

Answer 3

The relative atomic mass of an element is the Average mass of its atoms, compared to 1/12th the mass of a carbon-12 atom.

Question 3

How do you calculate the relative atomic mass of 2 isotopes? (example Chlorine)

Answer 3

Question 4

Why would the relative atomic mass lean closer to one isotope than the other?

Answer 4

This is because there is simply much more abundance of the other isotope.

Question 5

what does a mass spectroscopy show?

Answer 5

Mass spectroscopy shows the existence of isotopes and their relative abundances.
It will give the abundance in percentages.
e.g 37Cl and 35Cl