answersLogoWhite

0

the atomic number

User Avatar

Wiki User

16y ago

What else can I help you with?

Related Questions

Atom of an element with a different number of protons?

This is not possible. The number of protons identifies an element, and all of the atoms of the same element have the same number of protons. The atoms of an element can, however, have different numbers of neutrons, and they are called isotopes.


What is the name for atoms of an element that have different masses?

An atom or element that have different masses are known as isotopes.


What Have different isotopes of the same element?

Isotopes of the same element have different numbers of neutrons and mass.


How does an element differ from its isotopes?

Isotopes of the same element have different number of neutrons.


What is the different of isotopes and a same element?

Isotopes are atoms of the same element that are only different by the number of neutrons they have


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.


Isotopes of an element have a different number of?

neutrons


What are facts about isotopes of the same element?

Isotopes of the same element have a different number of neutrons.


What do you call the several different forms of an element having different atomic mass and number of neutrons?

We call these different "flavors" of an element the isotopes of that element.


What does the symbol of isotopes of the same element look like?

Isotopes have different masses, so the superscript preceding the symbol will be different. An example could be carbon with atomic mass 12 and carbon with atomic mass 14. 12C and 14C with the 12 and 14 being superscripts, identifies the different isotopes.


How do you know the difference between isotopes and an element?

Isotopes are atoms of an element having different number of electrons.


What are different types of the same element called?

If an atom of the same element has the same number of protons but a different number of neutrons, then they are isotopes.