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Oxygen is denoted as 16O *. How many protons and neutrons does an oxygen atom have?
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Oxygen is denoted as 16O *. How many protons and neutrons does an oxygen atom have?

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I believe the oxygen atom has 8 protons and 8 neutrons.
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Oxygen has 8 protons. Oxygen-16 isotope has 8 neutrons .
Number of protons = Number of electrons.
So it has also 8 electrons.
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