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How are nitrogen-14 and nitrogen-15 same and different?

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Since different isotopes of an element have different numbers of neutrons (but always the same number of protons) they have different mass numbers. Nitrogen-14 and nitrogen-15 are both stable isotopes of nitrogen. However, the other 5 isotopes are all unstable.

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