The students performed the "Beanium" laboratory investigation where various variety of beans represented different isotopes of a particular element. The students sorted and counted the types of beans, and then acquired their masses.
Using this information, they were able to calculate the average mass for any kind of bean. Their investigation resembled how scientists attempt to obtain the average atomic mass for an element based on the percent abundance and mass of the variety of isotopes for that particular element.
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