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Atoms of the same element with varying numbers of neutrons are isotopes.
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An isotope differs from its parents element only by the number of?
Neutrons
How do you find the number of neutrons in a element using only mass and the element name?
Look up the name on the periodic table and subtract the atomic number from the mass number (which is protons and neutrons). That will give you the number of neutrons.
Is the atomic weight of an element is equal to the number of protons minus the number of neutrons?
Atomic weight of an element is the number of protons plus neutrons in the nucleus, atomic number is the number of protons only.
What is the isotope of atom?
An isotope atom of an element is one with the same number of protons in the nucleus (i.e the atomic number) but with a different number of neutrons giving it a different mass. Isotopes have the same chemistry because they have identical valence shells. An example is chlorine which is found in nature with two stable isotopes 35Cl with 18 neutrons and 37Cl with twenty. As 35 is around 75% and 37 25% in nature the atomic weight is 35.453.
What element is in period 5 and is a transition element and has 51 neutrons?
The isotope of zirconim, 91Zr, has 51 neutrons. In order to solve this problem, one must know that an element's atomic weight is the average of its number of protons and neutrons (only neutrons are variable). Since the atomic number is the number of protons, the atomic number subtracted from the atomic weight gives the number of neutrons. An element in period 5 that has this many neutrons is found to be zirconium (the isotope 91Zr).
What is the number of neutrons in its isotope with mass number 33.?
The only element which has a reasonably abundant isotope with mass number 33 is sulphur and that has 17 neutrons.
What is the number of neutrons in its isotope with mass number 33?
The only element which has a reasonably abundant isotope with mass number 33 is sulphur and that has 17 neutrons.
What models represent isotopes of the same element?
Isotopes of the same element have different number of neutrons.
What is the different of isotopes and a same element?
Isotopes are atoms of the same element that are only different by the number of neutrons they have
When an element becomes a different isotope what feature changes?
only the number of neutrons
Can atoms of two different elements have the same number of neutrons?
Number of protons in in an element denote the type of element. So you identify element on the number of protons in it. Protons being positively charged can not sit together in a nucleus. They will repel each other. So you do not have an element in which only 2 or more protons and no neutrons are there.It means neutrons act as binding material in an element. So usually equal or more neutrons are there in an element. If same number of neutrons are there in nucleus but different number of protons, then it is no more a same but different element. An element in which different number of neutrons are there are called as Isotope. All element have got one or more Isotopes. So there 'physical' properties would differ but not 'chemical' property.
Can 2 isotopes of the same element differ in the number of electrons?
No. The only difference between 2 isotopes of the same element is the number of neutrons.
