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A nickel atom (Ni) has a mass numbet of 61. how many neutrons does the atom have

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The atomic number of nickel is 28. That means Ni has 28 protons. And the mass number is the total of numbers of protons and neutrons. So the nickel atom has 61-28=33 protons.
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