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What makes two isotopes of the same element different from each other?
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∙ 7y ago
Different isotopes of the same element are usually considered not to be chemically different. The atoms of different isotopes of the same element differ only in mass, not in their electronic structure, and it's the electronic structure of an atom that determines its chemical properties.
A partial exception: hydrogen and its isotopes deuterium and tritium. Because the isotopes of hydrogen weigh twice and three times as much respectively, but have the same electronic structure, while they take part in the same chemical reactions, the reaction rates differ.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 9y agoIsotopes of the same element have different numbers of neutrons.
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∙ 8y agoThe number of neutrons in the atomic nucleus
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∙ 8y agoThe number of neutrons in the nucleus. This is the only difference between two isotopes of the same element. For example, C-12 has 6 protons and 6 neutrons. C-14 has 6 protons and 8 neutrons.
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∙ 7y ago- The number of neutrons is different.
- But significant differences of chemical properties bertween isotopes exist only for hydrogen.
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∙ 7y agoThe number of neutrons is different.
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What are atoms of an element that have the same number of protons as other atoms of that element but a different number of neutrons called?
They are called isotopes,
How different isotopes of the same element element differ?
Differences in IsotopesThey have different numbers of neutrons and therefore different mass numbers.
What is unique about an isotope?
Isotopes of an element differ from each other by having different numbers of neutrons. For example: 1H (hydrogen), 2H (deuterium), 3H (tritium) are isotopes. They have the same number of protons (1) but different numbers of neutrons (0, 1, and 2 respectively).
How do radioisotopes of an element differ from other isotopes?
=Unlike stable isotopes such as Carbon- 12 or oxygen- 1, radioisotopes spontaneously change into other isotopes over time.=
What element is formed when neptunium desintegrates?
Neptunium-237 decay to protactinium-233.Other isotopes of Np decay to other daughter isotopes.
Isotopes of an element differ from each other in the number of?
Isotopes of the same element differ in the number of neutrons. Isotopes have different physical properties but similar chemical properties.
How do isoptopes of an element differ from each other?
Isotopes of an element have different numbers of neutrons.
What subatomic particles can differ between neutral atoms of the same element?
The subatomic particle that makes atoms of different elements different from each other is the proton. This is given as the atomic number of the element on the periodic table.
All the isotopes of an element have the same number of neutrons?
No they don't have. Isotopes of an element differ in mass from from each other and this is due to the different no. of electrons in their nucleus.
What are atoms of an element that have the same number of protons as other atoms of that element but a different number of neutrons called?
They are called isotopes,
How different isotopes of the same element element differ?
Differences in IsotopesThey have different numbers of neutrons and therefore different mass numbers.
How do isotopes of the same element similar from each other?
They will have a different number of neutrons.
How many protons does 123Sb have?
51, just like all the other isotopes of Antimony. The amount of protons does not change in any of the isotopes of any element. If it were to it would be a different element.
Is oxygen 16 and nitrogen 16 isotopes of each other?
No, they are isotopes with the same atomic mass. But they are isotopes of different elements and so are very different from on another. For example nitrogen-16 and nitrogen-14 are isotopes of the same element.
Are carbon and nitrogen isotopes of each other?
No! Nuclides with different element names are never isotopes of each other, because their nuclei contain different numbers of protons and therefore are not chemically alike.
How do two isotopes of an element differ from each other?
They have the same formulas but different organic structures.
Do isotopes exhibit the same chemical atomic properties yes or no?
No, there are differences in chemical properties of different isotopes of the same element. For instance, certain isotopes will be radioactive while other isotopes will be stable and nonradioactive. Also, the different isotopes of hydrogen are significantly different depending on the number of neutrons present.
