BIO 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Valence Electron, Atomic Mass, Atomic Number

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Protons and neutrons are located in the nucleus, while electrons are located outside the nucleus. Protons and neutrons have relaively the same mass, 1amu, while electrons are much smaller. An atom has the same amount of protons as they do electrons so that atom itself is neutral, but this can change. Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen makes up most of us. Ca, mg, na, mg, k we need to live. The botom number, the smallest number, is the atomic number-shows you the number of protons in the nucleus of a certain element. Because the number of electrons can change, protons cannot. The top number, the bigger number, is the atomic mass-given in amus-atomic mass units. The protons and the neutrons are what composed the atomic mass. Electrons do not mater in the atomic mas because they are so small. Isotopes-when an element has a diferent number of neutrons.

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