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What is an isotope?

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An isotope is two or many more forms of the exact element that carry identical numbers of protons, yet confilicting numbers of neutrons in their nuclei.




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An isotope of an element is another element that has the same number of protons but a different number of neutrons (for instance
^4_2He and
^3_2He)
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