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If an atom has 34 protons and 40 neutrons what is its atomic number?
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The mass number is the sum of the number of protons and neutrons in the nucleus of the atom which is 74. Alternative answer 58 is the answer (???)
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What is the number of protons and neutrons called?
The number protons in an atom is called the atomic number (it is this number that tells us which element the atom is). The number of neutrons in an atom can change, but the term for the amount of neutrons is called an isotope. The number of protons and neutrons added together is called the atomic mass.
How do you find the number of neutrons from the mass number?
Atomic mass is the number of protons in an atom mass number is the number of protons plus neutrons in an atom the number of neutrons would equal the mass number minus the atomic number.
What equals the number of neutrons plus the number of protons in an atom?
The mass number is a whole number that is equal to the sum of protons and neutrons in an atom. Mass number is represented by the letter (A) orA= Z + N (Z) represent the atomic number or the number of protons in the nucleus.
Which particles account for the difference between the atomic number and the mass number?
The answer is that it is neutrons that account for the difference between atomic weight and atomic number. The atomic number is the number of protons or the number of electrons in the atom, since they are normally equal. The atomic weightis the sum of the total number of protons, electrons AND neutrons in the atom. Knowing both the atomic number and the atomic weight of an atom lets you know the number of neutrons in the atom (the isotope). Example: Uranium, Atomic Number 92, Atomic Weight 235. The atomic number tell you that the uranium atom has 92 protons and 92 electrons. The atomic weight tells you that it has a combined total of 235 protons, electrons and neutrons. Since you know from the atomic number that there is a total of 184 protons and electrons in the atom (92 + 92) and from the atomic weight that the total number of protons, electons and neutrons is 235 (92 + 92 + X = 235), you now know that there are 151 neutrons in that uranium atom. The atomic number and atomic weight together tell you that the uranium atom 235 has 92 protons, 92 electons and 151 neutrons.
What is the atomic symbol atomic number and atomic mass of an atom that has 27 protons 27 neutrons and 27 electrons?
The atomic number of an atom is the number of protons, so this atom has an atomic number of 27, which makes it cobalt, with the symbol Co. The isotope of cobalt that contains 27 protons and 27 neutrons has a mass number of 54, which is the sum of the protons and neutrons in the nucleus of the atom.
What do you have when you subtract the atomic no from atomic mass?
Atomic number is number of protons in an atom while atomic mass is the sum of protons and neutrons in an atom when you subtract you will get the number of neutrons in an atom.
How do you calculate the atomic mas based on the number of protons and neutrons of an atom?
Atomic mass is simply the sum of the number of protons and the number of neutrons. If an atom has "A" protons and "B" neutrons, its atomic mass is A + B.
Atomic mass is determined by the number of protons plus the number of?
Atomic mass is determined by the number of protons and neutrons in an atom's nucleus.
What does the atomic number of an atom made of?
An atomic nucleus contain protons and neutrons; protons and neutrons contain quarks and gluons.
How is an atomic number similar to mass number?
The nucleus of an atom consists of protons and neutrons. The number of protons in a particular nucleus is its "atomic number". The total number of protons and neutrons in a particular nucleus is its "mass number".
The number of protons and neutrons in an atom?
Depends on the atom. The atomic number will give you the number of protons. The atomic weight will give you approximately the number of protons and neutrons combined.
What number is the atomic mass equal to?
Atomic mass is the number of protons and neutrons in an atom.
What is equal to the total number of protons and neutrons?
If you add the number of protons to the number of neutrons in an atom, you have calculated that atom's atomic mass.
Distinguish between atomic number and atomic mass?
The Atomic Number of an element is equal to the number of Protons/Electrons in the nucleus and the Atomic Weight is approximately the total number of Protons/Electrons and Neutrons combined. Using Carbon as an example: Total Protons/Electrons = 6, therefore the Atomic Number is 6 Total Neutrons = 6, and the Atomic Weight is 12 Question? The Atomic Number of Lithium = 3 The Atomic Weight of Lithium = 7 How many Protons/Electrons? How many Neutrons? Answer: Protons/Electrons = 3 Neutrons = 4
What are counted in an an atom to determine mass number?
Atomic Mass: protons AND neutrons atomic number: just protons
If the atomic mass of an atom is 48 and the atom contains 20 protons how many neutrons does the atom contain?
28. Atomic mass - Atomic # (same as the number of protons) = number of neutrons
What is the number of protons and neutrons called?
The number protons in an atom is called the atomic number (it is this number that tells us which element the atom is). The number of neutrons in an atom can change, but the term for the amount of neutrons is called an isotope. The number of protons and neutrons added together is called the atomic mass.
