lithium has 3 protons which would also be 3 electrons.
The atomic number of lithium is 3. Therefor there are 3 protons and neutron in the nucleus of lithium. Lithium also has 4 neutrons. atomic # = protons and neutrons neutrons = rounded atomic mass - atomic number Sources- 7th grade Acc. Science
Lithium is element #3. That, of course, is the atomic number - the number of protons. The atomic mass will of course depend on the specific isotope. The most common isotope is Lithium-7, that is, atomic mass = 7. Lithium-6 also occurs in nature as a stable isotope.
6.941 is the average mass of lithium's isotopes. The majority of lithium (on average about 92.5%) is lithium-7 with 3 protons and 4 neutrons while about 7.5% is lithium-6 with 3 protons and 3 neutrons. A number of other isotopes exist but only in trace amounts.
It tells us the total mass of Protons and Neutrons, in AMU, Atomic Mass Units.
A neutral lithium atom has 3 electrons, the same as the number of protons, which is the atomic number of lithium. There is no lithium ion with a charge of 7+. If you mean lithium with a mass number of 7, the number of protons is 3 and the number of neutrons is 4.
The atomic number of lithium is 3. Therefor there are 3 protons and neutron in the nucleus of lithium. Lithium also has 4 neutrons. atomic # = protons and neutrons neutrons = rounded atomic mass - atomic number Sources- 7th grade Acc. Science
Lithium is element #3. That, of course, is the atomic number - the number of protons. The atomic mass will of course depend on the specific isotope. The most common isotope is Lithium-7, that is, atomic mass = 7. Lithium-6 also occurs in nature as a stable isotope.
6.941 is the average mass of lithium's isotopes. The majority of lithium (on average about 92.5%) is lithium-7 with 3 protons and 4 neutrons while about 7.5% is lithium-6 with 3 protons and 3 neutrons. A number of other isotopes exist but only in trace amounts.
It tells us the total mass of Protons and Neutrons, in AMU, Atomic Mass Units.
Lithium has 3 protons. The atomic number and the number of protons will be the same.
A neutral lithium atom has 3 electrons, the same as the number of protons, which is the atomic number of lithium. There is no lithium ion with a charge of 7+. If you mean lithium with a mass number of 7, the number of protons is 3 and the number of neutrons is 4.
The mass number of lithium is 7. This number represents the total number of protons and neutrons in the nucleus of a lithium atom.
This atom has three neutrons. The atomic mass number is the sum of the protons and neutrons. All atoms of the same element have the same number of protons (lithium has three), so the neutrons have to account for the rest of the mass. 6 (the mass number)-3 (the number of protons in a lithium atom)=3. So this atom must have three neutrons.
There are 4 neutrons in a lithium-7 atom. Lithium, which has atomic number 3, has 3 protons in its nucleus. If its atomic number is 3 (which is the number of protons in its nucleus) and its mass number is 7, we can find the number of neutrons by subtracting the atomic number from the mass number. In this case, 7 minus 3 equals 4.
6Li has 3 protons, neutrons and electrons. 7Li has 3 protons, 4 neutrons and 3 electrons.
Lithium by default contains 3 protons and 4 neutrons so its atomic mass is 6.941 amu (atomic mass units)
The mass number is a whole number, but the atomic mass may not be. Mass numbers are the total number of neutrons and protons in an isotope (different from atomic numbers, which are the whole numbers of protons only). These are also whole numbers, and for most lithium, it is 7. The mass number is 6 for lithium-6, which has only 3 neutrons. However, the "atomic mass" of an element is measured in atomic mass units, which are 1/12 of the weight of a carbon-12 atom (6 protons and 6 neutrons). Since neutrons are slightly heavier than protons, and there are more neutrons than protons in lithium-7 (3 protons to 4 neutrons), the atomic mass is slightly more than 7.