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Critical Thinking If there is a difference

between a substance's atomic number and
its atomic mass, which measure must be the
larger number?

User Bjg
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mass number is the amount of protons plus the amount of neutrons in an atom while atomic number is just the number of protons, therefore the mass number would be greater.
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