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What is the sum of the protons and neutrons in an atom equals to?
The nucleon number (or mass number).
What is the mass number minus the atomic number called?
The difference between the mass number and the atomic number is called the number of neutrons in an atom.
Atomic mass is an atoms number of what?
it depends because isotopes have different nucleon numbers but their atomic number stays the same.
Is the protron a nucleon?
Yes, the proton is a nucleon. The term nucleon is used to speak of component particles of the nucleus of an atom. That means either a proton or a neutron. The term nucleon can be applied to either the proton or neutron when speaking of these particles as building blocks of atomic nuclei. Use the link to the related question below for more information.
What does the graph of mass per nucleon vs atomic mass number look like?
The graph of mass per nucleon vs atomic mass number typically shows an increasing trend up to iron (Fe-56), where nuclear binding energy is maximized. Nuclei with atomic numbers lower than iron release energy in fusion, while those higher than iron release energy in fission. Beyond iron, the graph slopes downward due to the increasing energy required to overcome the electrostatic repulsion of protons.
What is the mass number of an atom with 8 protons and 9 neutrons?
The mass number (aka nucleon number) is 17. Oxygen-17 occurs naturally as 0.04% of oxygen.
Does oxygen -16 and oxygen -18 have different mass numbers?
The numbers 16 and 18 is their nucleon number. Hence, they will have different masses since they have different number of neutrons.
Why do you think the nucleon number of chlorine is 35.5 which is not a whole number?
The nucleon number is not 35.5! Chlorine has isotopes with 35 or 37 nucleons but a fractional number is not possible.
What do you find when you subtract the proton number from the nucleon number?
When you subtract the proton number from the nucleon number, you get the number of neutrons in an atom. This is because the nucleon number represents the total number of protons and neutrons in an atom, while the proton number represents the number of protons only.
Which numbers are added to give the nucleon number of an ion?
No need to add. Use the elemnts mass number, which is the number of protons plus the number of neutrons
How can you get the nucleon number?
The nucleon number, also known as the mass number, can be found by adding the number of protons and neutrons in an atomic nucleus. It is represented by the letter A in the notation of an element's isotopes.
What is the sum of the protons and neutrons in an atom equals to?
The nucleon number (or mass number).
What is the mass number minus the atomic number called?
The difference between the mass number and the atomic number is called the number of neutrons in an atom.
The mass number of an atom is the?
The mass number also refers to the nucleon number. Usually the larger number among the two present in the periodic table, the nucleon number refers to the number of protons and neutrons present within an atomic nucleus of an element.
What the nucleon number of nitrogen?
The nucleon number of nitrogen is 14. This includes both protons and neutrons in the nucleus of the nitrogen atom. It is calculated by adding the number of protons (which is the atomic number) to the number of neutrons.
What do you call atoms of the same elements with different nucleon number?
isotopes
Why is proton number of an atom of an element different from the nucleon number of an atom of an element?
The proton number is the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom, while the nucleon number is the total number of protons and neutrons in the nucleus. Since protons and neutrons have different masses, the nucleon number will be higher than the proton number in isotopes where the number of neutrons is greater than the number of protons.
