How are isotopes and the number of electrons related?

Answer 1

Before we tackle isotopes and neutrons, lets talk about protons. The number of protons in an atom determines the elemental identity of the atom. Only that. Now to the question. Atoms of a given element have a specific number of protons in the nucleus, but can have a modest variety of numbers of neutrons in their nuclei. Let's look at hydrogen. Hydrogen is identified by the fact that there is a single proton in the nucleus. Most hydrogen is just that. But some hydrogen has a neutron stuck to the one proton in the nucleus. This creates another "flavor" of hydrogen. It's another isotope of hydrogen. We have the original isotope of hydrogen (with one proton and no neutron) and the isotope with the one proton and one neutron. Now we look at the last and most unusual isotope of hydrogen. It has the one proton and two neutrons. Hydrogen has three isotopes, and each has the same number of protons (each isotope is hydrogen) and each has a different number of neutrons: zero, one and two. Heavier elements have varying numbers of neutrons in combinations with there protons. This creates a number of different isotopes for each and every element. It is the variable numbers of neutrons that can hang out with the protons in a given element's nucleus that give rise to the different isotopes of that element. Our friends at Wikipedia have some details. A link is provided.

Answer 2

An atom is an electrically stable particle consisting of the smaller particles (subatomic) called electrons, protons and neutrons. An atom can be thought of chemically as a single unit of mass of a specific element (gold, beryllium, lithium, cobalt, etc.). At the center of an atom is the positively charged bulk of it's mass, known as the nucleus. The nucleus is positively charged because it is only made up of (ignoring quarks and gluons) protons and neutrons. Protons having +1 charge, neutrons having 0 charge. The number of protons in an atom's nucleus is what differentiates one element from another, REGARDLESSof the number of neutrons in the nucleus. All of the different nuclei that exist that have the same number of protons, but different number of neutrons, are isotopes of whatever atom is being defined by the number of protons in that nucleus. Some nuclei, for various reasons I won't get into here, aren't stable and will spontaneously release a burst of energy to get themselves down to a lower, more stable energy. That burst of energy released is radiation and it can come in the form of particles being released or electromagnetic energy being released..

Answer 3

An isotope of an element has the same number of electrons as the "normal" element. Isotopes are atoms of an element with different numbers of neutrons in their nucleus than usual. All isotopes of a given element have the same number of electrons (and protons) as a neutral (non-ionized) atom.

Answer 4

Isotopes have the same number of electrons since they are the same element, but they may have different numbers of neutrons. The number of electrons in an atom determines its chemical properties and how it interacts with other elements.

Answer 5

they both are related to science whoever needs this is doing their homework plus you can say they both are made up of elements.

Answer 6

An Isotope is a form of a same element that has a different Atomic Mass number. this means that it has more neutrons in it's nucleus.

Answer 7

Isotopes of an element have same number of electrons. They have different number of neutrons.

Answer 8

Isotopes of the same element have a different number of neutrons.

Answer 9

no they are different