The carbon 12 isotope has six neutrons and six protons in the nucleus, hence, 12 nucleons in total.
It is now Carbon-13
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Gives carbon 13, an isotope of carbon, whereby the number of protons and electrons remains the same as carbon 12 but has an extra neutron
It would still be called carbon. THIS ACTUALLY EXISTS! The number of protons determines an element. Atoms with the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons are said to be different ISOTOPES of an element. For example, the most common isotope of carbon is called carbon-12; since carbon has 6 protons, it means that the remaining 6 particles are neutrons. However, carbon-13 (6 protons, 7 neutrons) and carbon-14 (6 protons, 8 neutrons) also exist in nature.
The proton and the neutron have mass each of one atomic mass unit. Actually they are not quite the same, but they are very close.
You may be referring to neutrons, protons and electrons. The neutron is heavier than the proton, but the difference is more like two electrons than one.
neutron
A sentence for neutron is:A neutron can be described as an uncharged elementary particle
carbon has 12 neucleons and 6 protons so it has 12- 6= 6 neutrons
carbon-12
It is a 1:1 ratio because in a Carbon-12 atom there are 6 neutrons and 6 protons.
An atom is made of 3 key componants, proton, neutron and electron. Different amounts of protons in the atom make it a different element, e.g carbon 12 is an element with 12 protons AND neutrons, so 6 protons and 6 neutrons. So if a proton is added to an atom, it creates a different type of atom....but.....if another Neutron is added, for example, making carbon 12-->carbon 14 by adding 2 neutrons, this makes it an isotope of carbon, as carbon would normally be found as carbon 12. So an isotope is an atom with an unnatural amount of neutrons within it.
because carbon-12 and carbon-14 both have different electrons while having the same proton and different neutron.
Carbon-12 has 6 protons, neutrons, and electrons.
A proton and a neutron added together would be Deuterium without an electron.
6
It would be 6 and 7. Here is why.... The isotope is created when you add a neutron. Protons cannot be added or taken from an atom or it changes the element entirely. Therefore, if you have carbon (6 protons & 6 neutrons) and you add a NEUTRON, you now have the 2nd isotope of carbon. I am positive that you cannot add protons to an atom. The one I am most familiar with is hydrogen. Hydrogen has one proton & ZERO neutrons. If you add one neutron you have deuterium which is the second isotope of hydrogen. If you add two neutrons you have Trittium...... By adding neutrons you have different variations of the SAME ELEMENT! If you added protons to the atom you would have DIFFERENT ELEMENTS! Hope this helps.
It doesn't. Under natural conditions, carbon 14 generally forms from nitrogen 14. A high energy neutron from space strikes the nitrogen nucleus, causing it to eject a proton, ultimately forming a carbon 14 atom and hydrogen 1 atom. It can also occur via neutron capture by carbon 13. Currently there is an overabundance of carbon 14 in the atmosphere as a result of nuclear testing.
Carbon 12 has 6 protons and 6 neutrons. Carbon 14 has 6 protons and 8 neutrons. Carbon 12 is abundant in the environment, accounting for 98.89% of all carbon and is a stable isotope of carbon. Carbon 14 accounts for only about 1 trillionth of all of the carbon on Earth and is radioactive, with a half life of roughly 5700 years, which makes it good for use in dating fossils etc
The number of neutrons in a nucleus depends on the element referred to and the specific isotope. For example how many neutrons in Carbon-12 would give an answer of 6