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The inert gas xenon (chemical symbol Xe) has an atomic number of 54, and it has 54 protons in its nucleus. The number of neutrons varies, however. Let's look at what's going on. There are 37 different know isotopes of xenon. They range from Xe-110 (with 56 electrons) through Xe-147 (with 93 neutrons). Among these isotopes are the 9 stable isotopes of xenon. They are Xe-124 (70 neutrons), Xe-126 (72 neutrons), Xe-128 (74 neutrons), Xe-129 (75 neutrons), Xe-130 (76 neutrons), Xe-131 (77 neutrons), Xe-132 (78 neutrons), Xe-134 (80 neutrons), and Xe-136 (82 neutrons). Everything other than these is unstable and will have a neutron count that can be found with simple math. Given an isotope, like Xe-147, subtract the number of protons (the atomic number), which is 54, from the isotope number, which is 147 in this case. The 147 - 54 means that there will be 97 protons in the nucleus of a xenon-147 atom. A link can be found below.

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