What is the difference between carbon-12 and carbon-14?

Answer 1

C 14 and C 12 are both isotopes of carbon. Since they are the same element, both of these isotopes have the same number of neutrons. However, C 12 has 6 neutrons and is stable whereas C 14 has 8 neutrons and is radioactive.

Answer 2

The main difference between carbon-12 and carbon-14 is their Atomic Mass. Carbon-12 has 6 protons and 6 neutrons, while carbon-14 has 6 protons and 8 neutrons. Carbon-14 is used in radiocarbon dating to determine the age of organic materials.

Answer 3

Carbon 12 differs from Carbon 14 in two different ways. Carbon 14 has more mass and Carbon 12 and Carbon 14 has two more neutrons in its nucleus than Carbon 12. Both have the same number of protons. It is the number of protons that determines an atom is carbon. The combined number of protons and neutrons establishes the atomic weight. It took years for chemists to figure out why different samples of the same element had different atomic weights. Then Madam Curie figured out about radioactivity and isotopes. Elements come in more than one form.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Carbon-14 is a radioactive unstable isotope of carbon, with 8 neutrons in the nucleus.

Carbon-12 is a stable isotope of carbon, with 6 neutrons in the nucleus.

Answer 6

C-12 has 6 protons and electrons the same as C-14.

But C12 has 8 neurons and C14 has 6 neuron.

They are isotopes.

Answer 7

Carbon 12 and Carbon 14 are isotopes of the element carbon. While they all share the number of protons and electrons they have differing numbers of neutrons.

Answer 8

Carbon 12 has 6 protons and 6 neutrons. Carbon 14 has 6 protons and 8 neutrons.

Answer 9

C12 has 12 neutrons while C14 has 14 neutrons. The different number of neutrons give these isotopes different weight but they have the same number of electrons and protons

Answer 10

2 neutrons.

Also, C-14 is radioactive while C-12 is not.