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You subtract the atomic number from the atomic weight. For example, if you have a helium atom and its atomic weight is 4 and you subtract its atomic number (2) the number of neutrons in the helium atom is 2.
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What is an atom that has varing numbers of neutrons?
A single atom that has varying numbers of neutrons is undergoing a nuclear reaction. However, the questioner probably meant, "What is the name for different atoms of the same element that have differing numbers of neutrons?", and the answer to that question is "isotopes"
How much neutrons and protons and electrons in a atom?
These numbers actually vary between atom to atom.
How do you figure out how many neutrons are found in an atom?
Finding out how many neutrons are in a atom is easy. All you have to do is find the element's atomic number and atomic weight.
How many netrons are in a nitrogen atom?
In a nitrogen-14 atom, there are 7 neutrons, where the isotopes with mass numbers with 13 and 15, have 6 and 8 neutrons respectively.
Atom does not have to have equal numbers of protons and?
neutrons in order to be stable. The number of protons determines the element's identity, while the stability of the nucleus is influenced by the balance of protons and neutrons. Isotopes can have different numbers of neutrons while maintaining the same number of protons.
How would an atom have a different weight?
The isotopes of the same atom would have differing numbers of neutrons.
Will each atom of an element always have the same number of neutrons?
No many elements have multiple isotopes with different numbers of neutrons. Every atom of a certain isotope has the same number of neutrons
What is the atomic mass of a atom?
The atomic mass of an atom is the total mass of protons, neutrons, and electrons in the atom, measured in atomic mass units (amu). It is approximately equal to the sum of the number of protons and neutrons in the atom's nucleus.
Will an atom with more neutrons react identically to an atom of the same element with fewer neutrons?
Not always. Some atoms of the same element with different numbers of neutrons are radioactive, whereas the other atoms are not.
What is true about the number of protons and neutrons in a neutral atom?
The numbers of each are equal! Therefore the atom is neutral.
How many numbers of neutrons does the element carbon have?
The carbon atom can have either 6, 7 or 8 neutrons in its nucleus.
How can you figure out the number of neutrons in an atom?
You subtract the atomic number from the atomic weight. For example, if you have a helium atom and its atomic weight is 4 and you subtract its atomic number (2) the number of neutrons in the helium atom is 2.
