Isotope help / unit conversion help?

Im having some problems figuring out a question right. I m not sure I m on the right track. It says: the concentration of the element Rb in a rock i

I'm having some problems figuring out a question right. I m not sure I m on the right track. It says: the concentration of the element Rb in a rock is 5ppm by mass. What is the concentration of the isotope 87Rb in the rock in units of moles/g? in moles/cm^3? In atoms/cm^3.

So far I thought that 87Rb occurs 27.83% (vs. 72.12% for 85Rb). So I got a total of 1.3915ppm (which I think = 1.3915*10^-6 g/g?). The mass of 87Rb is 86.909 amu so = 1.4426*10^-22g/mol (I think?). So I get a total of 2.00376*10^16 mol/g. If I've done that correctly I m now not sure how to convert to moles/cm^3?
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or:I'm having some problems figuring out a question right. I m not sure I m on the right track. It says: the concentration of the element Rb in a rock is 5ppm by mass. What is the concentration of the isotope 87Rb in the rock in units of moles/g? in moles/cm^3? In atoms/cm^3.So far I thought that 87Rb occurs 27.83% (vs. 72.12% for 85Rb). So I got a total of 1.3915ppm (which I think = 1.3915*10^-6 g/g?). The mass of 87Rb is 86.909 amu so = 1.4426*10^-22g/mol (I think?). So I get a total of 2.00376*10^16 mol/g. If I've done that correctly I m now not sure how to convert to moles/cm^3? Thank you

or:5 ppm by mass means 5 micrograms per gram27.83% of that is 87Rb so 0.2783 x 5E-6 gram/gram = 1.3915E-6 g/gatomic mass = 86.909 grams/mole so you have (1.3915E-6 g)/(86.909g/mol)You arrange the fractions so the units cancel and leave an answer in the units you want. So in this case the grams cancel and the answer is in moles per gram.(1.3915E-6 g)/(86.909g/mol) = 0.016011 mol per gram (Notice that I left out the \"per gram\" for this calculation until the end because it was only a confusion factor.)Get a ruler in your hands. Measure things until you start to understand how a ruler works. Measure some stuff and figure out where the center is. Say you measure a book and it's 7/8\" thick. You look at your ruler and see that every eighth is divided into two sixteenths, so obviously half of 7/8\" is going to be 7/16\". If you write that out you have 1/2 x 7/8 = 7/16. And you notice that 1/2 is divided into 2/4 and then into 4/8 and so on, so you can convert anything to anything by multiplying all the numbers on top and then all the numbers on bottom.Other rulers are divided into 10 and 100 parts. But an inch is still an inch, so anything on one ruler can be translated to the other ruler. A half inch on one ruler is 5/10 or 50/100 on the other. An eighth inch is just 12.5 marks when you have 100 marks per inch. A metric ruler divides an inch into 25.4 parts, so a half inch would be 12.7 of those parts. Pretty simple, isn't it? Practice this a bit and people will think you went to wizard school.

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