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Given that the mass number for carbon is 13, how many protons and how many neutrons does the isotope contain?
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Given that the mass number for carbon is 13, how many protons and how many neutrons does the isotope contain?

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6 protons

7 neutrons

protons is also the atomic number... and carbon is 6 on the periodic table. then just subtract the atomic number from the mass number.... then you get the number of neutrons

13-6= 7

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