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Why carbon is taken as standard value for atomic weight while not others like oxygen and hydrogen?
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Why carbon is taken as standard value for atomic weight
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A form of an element that differs in its atomic weight from other forms of that same element is?
Elements that differ in atomic weight from other atoms of the same element (ie their atomic masses are different to each others due to a different number of neutrons) are known as isotopes. Example: carbon-14 which has 6 protons and 8 neutrons in its nucleus and an atomic mass of 14, as opposed to regular carbon (carbon-12) which has 6 protons and 6 neutronsin its nucleus, and an atomic mass of 12. Carbon-14is an isotope of carbon.
What is the most common ion that hydrogen forms?
[Kluged from Wikipedia and others] Hydrogen (H) (Standard atomic mass: 1.00794(7) has three naturally occurring isotopes: Protium 1H, Deuterium 2H, and Tritium 3H. Other, highly unstable nuclei (4H to 7H) have been synthesized in the laboratory but not observed in nature.
Do carbon and oxygen have the same atomic mass?
They don't contain the same number of particles because some particles are more dense than others making one atom and another atom the same mass but not have the same number of particles.
What gasses are emitted from a volcano during eruption?
The main gasses that are released during a volcanic eruption are water vapor, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, sulfur, and lesser amounts of chlorine, hydrogen, and argon.carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, sulfurhydrogen
Each amino acid differs from others in the?
Amino acids all have the same alpha carbon which has a hydrogen, NH2, and COOH. They differ in their unique R group.
What are elements that you would find in the kitchen?
Hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, and others.
What are the 5 most abundant elements found in plants and animals?
1.carbon 2.hydrogen3.oxygen4.nitrogen5. ...
What chemical elements are in hay?
Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and traces of all the others.
What elements are found in a candy cane?
Carbon Hydrogen and Oxygen (with very small traces of others).
What cotains two or more elements?
A water molecule is composed of elements hydrogen and oxygen. H2O Carbon dioxide is composed of carbon and oxygen. CO2 Methane, ethane, propane, butane and many others are composed of just carbon and hydrogen.
What gas is poisonous?
Many gasses are poisonous; including chlorine, fluorine, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, hydrogen cyanide, methane and others.
What is the element on wich life is based?
Carbon mostly, we are made of carbon chain molecules with things like oxygen, hydrogen, and Nitrogen (there are others as well)
What element is the main component of carbohydrates?
The word "carbohydrate" is made up of the names of three elements: carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. Which is the main one? Well, the hydrogen will outnumber the others but carbon is the backbone of these molecules, so you pick.
Why did America keep in secret the development of atomic and hydrogen bombs?
Britain and Germany, amongst others, were also developing atomic bombs. You don't allow your enemies in a war know what you are doing!
A form of an element that differs in its atomic weight from other forms of that same element is?
Elements that differ in atomic weight from other atoms of the same element (ie their atomic masses are different to each others due to a different number of neutrons) are known as isotopes. Example: carbon-14 which has 6 protons and 8 neutrons in its nucleus and an atomic mass of 14, as opposed to regular carbon (carbon-12) which has 6 protons and 6 neutronsin its nucleus, and an atomic mass of 12. Carbon-14is an isotope of carbon.
Is helium or carbon or hydrogen or beryllium the best ideal moderator for use in the core of a nuclear reactor?
Carbon is a very good moderator, for use in gascooled reactors, the others not.
How many elements are present in carbohydrates?
Carbon Oxygen and Hydrogen (plus maybe some traces of others occasionally).
