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I'm assuming you ask about the situation when isotopes has the same atomic number but different masses; this is normal because the number of neutrons in the isotopes of the same element is variable. But the number of protons (identical to atomic number) remain constant.

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What isotopes of uncharded elements have different numbers?

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Why atomic mass is different from the mass numbers?

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How can two atoms of an element can be different?

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Atomic mass differnet from the atomic mass number why is that?

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