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How to calculate natural abandunces

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Let x equal the percentage abundance of one of the two isotopes. The other isotope must then have an abundance of 100 percent minus x percent, which you express in decimal form as (1 - x). For nitrogen, you can set x equal to the abundance of N14 and (1 - x) as the abundance of N15.

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