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You can use a mass spectrometer, that is it detects the mass of the particle based on inertia. As isotopes differ from each other in the number of neutrons they have, a difference in charge cannot be detected.

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Q: How can you identify one isotope from another?
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What is the process in which one isotope changes to another isotope?

Radioactive decay is the process in which one isotope is changed into another isotope.


What do you to find a electron of an isotope?

subtract the number of protons from the number of electrons. The above answer does not answer the question!!


In which way does one isotope of carbon differs from another?

The number of neutrons in it.


What is the sub atomic particle that varies from one isotope to another?

It is neutron


What happens to a radioisotope when it undergoes decay?

This isotope is transformed in another isotope of another element.


One isotope for a particular element is distinguished from another by the number of?

The number of their neutrons.


Does the number of outermost electrons in an atom change from one isotope of an element to another?

No.


Which particle is used to identify isotopes of an element?

An element alwys has the same number of electrons and protons no matter what the isotope - so the answer is the neutrons determine the isotope.


When two more atoms are chemically bonded to one another the resulting structure is called a?

Isotope


How many atoms are in rutherfordium?

Rutherfordium is one atom; of course each isotope has another number of neutrons.


What is another term for an atom that is unstable?

isotope


Are beryllium atoms identical?

Each atom of an isotope of beryllium (or of another element) is different from the atoms of an other isotope. But all the atoms of an isotope are identical.