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Lesson: Chapter 3 — The Structure of Matter

3.4. Isotopes 2 of 6

Question 2

Between two isotopes of the same element, what is different?

The right answer is the one marked above.

The number of neutrons — and, because of that, the mass number as well.

Everything else is the same: protons, atomic number and electrons all stay put. That is the whole shape of the idea. Change the protons and you have changed the element; only the neutrons can vary while the element stays what it is.

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