Magnesium natural abundance ratios

Magnesium has one NMR-active isotope, Mg, which is only 10.0% naturally abundant. This is a spin 5/2 nucleus with a magnetogyric ratio of —1.639 X 10 rads T , which means it has a Larmor frequency that is 6% of that of protons in the same magnetic field and a receptivity of 72.9% of that of The relatively low Larmor frequency was one of the key factors... 

Thermal ionization has been used to determine isotopic abundance of virtually all the elements We have recently extnded our own capability in this direction by adapting the silica gel/phosphoric acid filament coating technique (5) to our system Five 1 of a fine silica gel suspension is placed on a filament Five l of the analyte ion solution is coated, dried then coated with 2 pi of a 0 7N phosphoric acid solution and heated until dry again The analysis is performed in a similar manner as before, except that the signal is more transient and somewhat less intense than the calcium analysis With this approach, however, we have made natural abundance isotope ratio measurements on zinc, copper, and magnesium Table II shows our measurements compared to the accepted values, shown in parenthesis, for these elements The isotope used as reference... 

Naturally occurring magnesium has an atomic mass of 24.312 and consists of three isotopes. The major isotope is natural abundance 78.99%, relative atomic mass 23.98504. The next most abundant isotope is Mg, relative atomic mass 25.98259. The third most abundant isotope is Mg, whose natural abundance is in the ratio of 0.9083 to that of Mg. Find the relative atomic mass of Mg. 

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