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Scandium undergoes beta decay What is the resulting daughter isotope?

Naturally occurring scandium 45Sc is stable. However synthetic isotopes of scandium can have 36 to 60 nucleons. Isotopes with masses above the stable isotope decay through beta emission into isotopes of titanium. Isotopes below the stable variety decay, mainly by electron capture, into isotopes of calcium.


What is an isotope of the element with 20 protons and 20 neutrons?

An isotope of the element with 20 protons and 20 neutrons is calcium-40. Calcium has an atomic number of 20, which means it has 20 protons. The total number of protons and neutrons in calcium-40 is 40 (20 protons + 20 neutrons).


What is the atomic number for calcium?

The most common calcium isotope, calcium-40, has 20 neutrons.


What are the subatomic particles of calcium?

Calcium has 20 electrons and protons; the number of neutrons is specific for each isotope. Number of neutrons in a calcium atom = Mass number - 20


What is the number of protons and neutrons in a calcium nucleus?

The atomic number of calcium is 20 and relative atomic mass (nucleon number) 40.1. The nucleon number is a decimal because it is an average value having taking all the different isotopes into consideration, based on their relative abundance. So all calcium atoms have 20 protons and 20 electrons. The number of neutrons will depend on what isotope of calcium we are talking about; calcium has 24 isotopes. If we consider the isotope calcium-40, which is the most abundant of all at about 97%, the can determine its number of neutrons as 40 - 20 = 20. So a calcium-40 isotope has 20 neutrons.

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How many nucleons are in the most common uranium isotope?

238 nucleons in 238U.


What is the breakdown of a radioactive isotope into a stable isotope?

it must eject the extra nucleons and should be conveted into a stable isotope.


How many new neutrons in calcium?

The most stable isotope, calcium-40 has 20 neutrons.


An isotope with mass number 44 has four more neutrons than protons?

The isotope has 20 protons and 24 neutrons. This isotope is called calcium-44, and it is a stable isotope of calcium.


How many neutrons calcium?

The number of neutrons is the difference between the Atomic Mass of an isotope and the atomic number of the element; each isotope of calcium has a different number of neutrons. See the link below for calcium isotopes.


Is the difference between the mass number of an isotope and its atomic number is equal to the number of nucleons in the nucleus?

Yes, the difference between the mass number and the atomic number of an isotope equals the number of neutrons in the nucleus, which are also known as nucleons. This relationship helps to identify the number of neutrons in an isotope based on its atomic and mass numbers.


Scandium undergoes beta decay What is the resulting daughter isotope?

Naturally occurring scandium 45Sc is stable. However synthetic isotopes of scandium can have 36 to 60 nucleons. Isotopes with masses above the stable isotope decay through beta emission into isotopes of titanium. Isotopes below the stable variety decay, mainly by electron capture, into isotopes of calcium.


How many protons electrons and neutrons dose calcium have?

Calcium has 20 protons and electrons and a variable number of neutrons, depending on the isotope.


How many neutrons are there in calcium?

The most common isotope of calcium (40Ca) has 20 neutrons. You can find this out by subtracting the number of protons (atomic number, 20), from the total AMU's of 40. About 96% of calcium on Earth is calcium-40. Calcium also has eight other isotopes, 41Ca through 48Ca, five of which are radioactive. The second-most prevalent stable isotope is 44Ca which is about 2% of all calcium.


How many nucleons are in hydrogen 3?

In hydrogen-1 (1H isotope), there is only one proton. It has just the one nucleon. But there are a couple of other isotopes of hydrogen, and they are hydrogen-2 and hydrogen-3. In hydrogen-2, a neutron is bound to the proton, and in hydrogen-3, twoneutrons are bound to the proton. That gives hydrogen-2 twonucleons, and hydrogen-3 three nucleons. Hydrogen will have either one, two or three nucleons, depending on which isotope we are investigating.


How many nucleons are there in Carbon?

Any atom has only one nucleus in it. The difference is always in the number of nucleons. Nucleons are the fundamental particles of an atom that constitute the nucleus. Protons and neutrons are the primary nucleons. The number of protons is always different for different elements. For e.g., the number of protons in a carbon atom is 6


How many protons are in an isotope of calcium with a mass number of 42?

A calcium isotope with a mass number of 42 would have 20 protons since calcium always has 20 protons. The mass number includes both protons and neutrons, so subtracting the number of neutrons (mass number - number of protons) gives the number of protons.