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They are all the same in that they have the same numbers of protons and electrons and therefore react in the same way. However, most elements can have atoms with different numbers of neutrons (isotopes), and therefore different masses.
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How is it possible for two different atoms to have the same atomic mass?
They would have to be atoms of the same element, and the same isotope of that element.
How atoms of the same element can be different?
An element by definition refers to all atoms with the same number of protons; so any atom with 1 proton is the same element as all other atoms with one proton; which would be helium. And then, all atoms with 2 protons would be the same element; hydrogen. But the atoms that have 1 proton and the atoms that have 2 protons cannot be the same element.An ion is an element with a different amount of electrons, where if it is a positive ion it is missing an election compared to a "normal" element and if it is a negative ion it would have an extra election compared to a "normal" element.An isotope is a member of the same element but it has a different number of neutrons.
What are atoms with the same atomic number but different mass called?
Atoms with the same atomic number are all atoms of the same element. However, if the atoms have different molecular weights, they are isotopes of the same element.
What are atoms of the same element but with different masses?
Atoms of the same element that have different masses are called isotopes of the element. The presence of different numbers of neutrons in the nucleus is responsible for the existence of isotopes of an element.
Is an element's atoms are all the same or different?
same
Atoms of the same element with different atomic masses?
what is an atom of the same element with different mass numbers
Atoms of different elements are different because they have different numbers of what type of particle?
Atoms are considered to be of the same element if they have the same number of protons. If their atoms have a different number of NEUTRONS, they are known as ISOTOPES of the same element.
Do all atoms of the same element contain the same number of netrons?
No, atoms of the same element have the same number of protons. Atoms of the same element with different numbers of neutrons are called isotopes.
Is it possible for atoms of the same element to have different chemical properties?
Atoms of the same element differ in the number of neutrons in their nuclei. All atoms of a given element have the same number of protons, of course. The number of protons in a nucleus determines which element the atom is. But the number of neutrons can vary, and these different "versions" of a given element are called isotopes of that element. See the related question, which is linked below.
Are atoms of the same element that have the same number of protons but have different number of neutrons?
Isotopes are atoms of the same element, having the same number of protons but 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
Is mixtures or isotopes are atoms of the same element with different numbers of neutrons?
Atoms have isotopes: it is true, the isotopes of the same element have different number of neutrons.
