Atomic Structure and mass

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What is the unit to measure the size of atoms?
Relative atomic mass is used.
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What is the relative atomic mass?
The average mass of the isotopes of an element compared to 1/12th of the mass of an atom of C-12.
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What is the symbol for relative atomic mass?
Ar
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What is the relative atomic mass unit equal to?
It is equal to a 1/12th mass of a carbon-12 atoms.
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What are the other elements measured relative to?
Masses are measured relative to carbon-12 mass.
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What equation do you use to work out the relative atomic mass of an element?
(% of isotope 1 x mass number of isotope 1) + ( % of isotope 2 x mass number of isotope 2) divided by 100.
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What are the relative mass and charge of sub-atomic particles?
Electron: -1 charge and 1/1840 relative mass
Proton: +1 charge and 1 relative mass
Neutron: 0 charge (neutral) and 1 relative mass
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What is the atomic or proton number?
is the number of protons in the nucleus of the atom.
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What is the nucleon number?
The number of protons and neutrons in the nucleus of an atom.
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How do you calculate the number of neutrons of an atom?
You calculate the number of neutrons by subtracting the neutron and mass number from the proton number.
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What determines which element a substance is?
The atomic number of an atom or ion determines what element it is.
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What do the atoms and ions of the same element have in common?
They have the same number of protons.
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How do you calculate the mass number?
The number of protons + the number of neutrons.
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How do you calculate the number of protons?
Mass number - number of neutrons
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How do you work out the number of electrons?
An atom is neutral so has equal number of protons and electrons.
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How do you calculate the number of neutrons?
Mass number - atomic number
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