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How many electrons must you add to Boron-10 to create a neutral atom? How many electrons must you add to Boron-11 to create a neutral atom? Why?

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What make Boron Boron is that it has 5 protons, and will therefor have 5 electrons in the unionized state. While I was looking this up I learned that there are two stable isotopes, Boron 10 with five neutrons, and boron 11 with six. The more common is boron 11, which is 80.1% of naturally occuring boron.

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