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Lesson: Chapter 3 — The Structure of Matter

3.4. Isotopes 3 of 6

Question 3

Which isotope of hydrogen has two neutrons?

The right answer is the one marked above.

Tritium, written 31H. Protium has 0 neutrons and deuterium has 1.

Read the notation and you need not remember: the bottom number is the atomic number (1 for all three, since all three are hydrogen), and the top is the mass number. Neutrons = A − Z, so tritium is 3 − 1 = 2.

Answer the question to continue.