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OpenStudy (anonymous):

HELP HELP PLZZ!!! A student analyzed two diagrams of a nitrogren atom. Both diagrams showed seven protons in the nucleus, but the number of neutrons differed.

OpenStudy (anonymous):

The two nitrogen atoms are???

OpenStudy (anonymous):

I know it's not chemistry, but there's no one in that subject!

OpenStudy (skullpatrol):

look up the definition of isotope

OpenStudy (anonymous):

One of two or more atoms having the same atomic number but different mass numbers.

OpenStudy (skullpatrol):

what does atomic number count?

OpenStudy (anonymous):

??? Uh the atomic number tells us the amount of protons and electrons??

OpenStudy (skullpatrol):

yep

OpenStudy (anonymous):

But that doesn't answer my question of what the two nitrogen atoms are

OpenStudy (skullpatrol):

think about what we have just talked about please

OpenStudy (anonymous):

I don't know! The nitrogen atoms are the isotope! I don't know! I'm sorry!

OpenStudy (skullpatrol):

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