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what is the mass number of an ion with 109 electrons 159 neutrons and a +1 charge? Express your answer as an integer

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Answer:

269

Step-by-step explanation:

You want the atomic mass number of an ion with 109 electrons, 159 neutrons, and a +1 charge.

Mass

The +1 charge indicates there is 1 more proton than the number of electrons. The mass number is the sum of the numbers of protons and neutrons:

(109 +1) +159 = 269

The mass number of the ion is 269.

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Additional comment

The element is Darmstadtium 269, an extremely radioactive isotope of Darmstadtium. Its half-life is 270 microseconds, so there is some contention regarding who first synthesized it. (It is gone before you can claim to have created it.)

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