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AP® Chemistry: Chemical Elements are Building Blocks Drill 1, Problem 2. Using this table, which of the following is an isotope of Atom 1?

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Here's your shmoop du jour, brought to you by Neutrons. Not just Jimmy -- the entire Neutron family.

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Here's a table showing the number of protons and neutrons in six different atoms.

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Using this table, which of the following is an isotope of Atom 1?

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And here are your potential answers...

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So... the only thing we really need to know to answer this question is...

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...what's an isotope?

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Maybe we've heard of carbon-14... a form of carbon

00:33

that helps scientists find the age of formerly living things...

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...like dinosaurs, which are totally cool...

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...through radioactive dating.

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Carbon-14 is an example

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of an ISOTOPE of an element. An isotope of an element is something that

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has the same atomic number as the element does on the periodic table,

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but a different number of neutrons.

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The atomic number on the periodic table is also equivalent to the number of protons,

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or positively charged particles, an element has...

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Really...the number of neutrons doesn't matter too much...it's "neutral," after all...

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So for this question, we're looking for an isotope of Atom 1...or in other words, the

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atom that has the same number of protons but a different number of neutrons.

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And what do you know... only Atom 3 fits the parameters. So our answer's A.

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As in, "Atom's apple."

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