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How do you identify a pair of isotopes? Also, what are isotopes?

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Isotopes are elements with same atomic number but different mass number. Hydrogen and Deuterium are isotopes with same atomic number but different mass number. Hydrogen have atomic number 1 and mass number 1 where as deuterium have atomic number 1 but mass number 2

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