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Without knowing which nuclide is in question, it remains safe to say that regardless of the element, in an ion the atomic number or count of protons differs from the number of electrons - and thus the atom is overall not electrically neutral - the definition of an ion. With fewer electrons than protons, it would be a positively charged ion (cation); with more electrons than protons, it would be a negative ion (anion).

If the atomic number (proton number) is P, the charge is x and the mass number is M, then

protons = P

neutrons = M- P

and electrons is the algebraic sum of P and x.

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