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As a matter of fact, there are 18 neutrons in the chlorine atom.

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Why does this indicate that most chlorine atoms contain 18 neurrons?

Normal chlorine is Cl-35. 35 represents the combined number of protons and neutrons. If you subtract the atomic number of 17 from this, you get 18, which is your neutron count. You can do this for every element; just take the atomic mass number, round it to the nearest whole number, then subtract the atomic number to get the neutrons.


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Yes: All atoms contain protons and electrons, and all except the atoms of hydrogen-1 also contain neutrons.


A chlorine atom with 18 neutrons is what element?

A chlorine atoms is always a molecule of chlorine, irrespective of the number of neutrons it may have.


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There should be 17, since the atomic number is how many protons (of which there are the same amount of neutrons). However, if it is an unstable isotope, it would have more neutrons.


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Chlorine is a chemical element and contain only chlorine atoms.


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Chlorine has an average atomic mass of 35.45 atomic mass unit. the to naturally occording isotopes are Chlorine-35 and Chlorine-37 Why does this indicate that most chlorine atoms contain 18 neutrons?

This has to due with the abundance of each. Lets break it down for a moment.The mass number is the sum of the number of protons and the number of neutrons. All chlorine atoms have 17 protons, so if we so a little subtraction, we can find out that there are 18 neutrons in 35Cl (Chlorine-35) and 19 neutrons in 37Cl. Another important piece of information that we need to know is that the atomic mass is an average of its isotopes. So lets say that there are equal amounts of 35Cl and 37Cl (50% of each). If we calculated the atomic mass (the average of the two), we would get a number that's directly in-between 35 and 37 since they are found in equal amounts in nature. Then the atomic mass would be 36.But we know this isn't true. There are not equal amounts of each isotope in nature; therefore, the atomic mass will not fall directly between the two masses of isotopes. The atomic mass of chlorine is 35.45, which means one isotope is more abundant than the other. Since 35.45 is closer to the weight of 35Cl, we know there is more of that isotope than 37Cl. Then, because we already figured out that there are 18 neutrons in 35Cl, we can officially say that most chlorine atoms have 18 neutrons.