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How can cobalt-59 and cobalt-60 be the same element but have different mass numbers?
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∙ 12y ago
They have different numbers of neutrons. An element is all of the atoms that have the same number of protons, but the the number of neutrons and electrons may vary.
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Isotopes of an element have a different number of?
neutrons
Why are the atomic mass numbers of an element not hole numbers?
Its the average of the weight of the different isotopes of that element.
What is it called when you have the same element but different mass number?
They are isotopes of that element, they have different neutron numbers.
What Have different isotopes of the same element?
Isotopes of the same element have different numbers of neutrons and mass.
What do different elements have different numbers of?
Different elements have different numbers of protons. The number of protons identifies the element.
What is an element that has the same atomic number but different mass numbers?
If a sample of an element contains atoms of different mass numbers, the name of the element followed by a hyphen and the mass number is the name of an isotope of the element.
Define the term isotope explain how two isotopes of an element are different?
Isotopes are atoms of the same element that have different numbers of neutrons. Different isotopes of an element have the same atomic number, but different mass numbers. I hope I helped! ^_^
How can carbon still be considered a single element and have different mass numbers?
Every element can have different mass numbers; these reflect the number of neutrons in the atom in addition to the protons that determine which element it is.
How can different atoms of the same element have the same atomic number but can have different mass numbers?
They have different numbers of neutrons.
How are all the isotopes of an element simular and how are they different?
Atoms of all isotopes of a single element have the same number of protons in their nuclei but have different numbers of neutrons if they have different mass numbers.
What does the same element have different numbers of?
Different number of neutrons in isotopes.
Isitopes exit because atoms of the same element can have different numbers of?
Isotopes have different numbers of neutrons.
