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Title: how do you get the isotope number
Post by: michael1982 on November 22, 2006, 11:29:45 AM

can anyone tell me how you get the different number of an isotope? is it to do with mass spectrometry?

Title: Re: how do you get the isotope number
Post by: Mitch on November 22, 2006, 01:30:26 PM

The mass number for an isotope is determined by adding the number of protons with the number of neutrons.