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A change in the number of neutrons in an atom will change the isotope. What will happen when the

number of protons changes in an atom?

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A couple of things that will happen if you change the number of protons, electrons, and neutrons in an atom. If you change the number of protons in an atom somehow, then there will be less positive charge. If you change the number of neutrons somehow, nothing will happen because it carry's no charge at all.

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increasing the number of protons would increase the positive charge of the atom and that makes it an ion

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