Elements

Question 1

What is an element?

Answer 1

Atoms with the same atomic number

Question 2

What is an isotope?

Answer 2

Different forms of the same element, they have the same number of protons but a different number of neutrons

Question 3

What is a popular example of an isotope?

Answer 3

Carbon-12 and carbon-13

Question 4

What equation do you use to work out the relative atomic mass?

Answer 4

isotope abundance x isotope mass number/ sum of the abundance of all the isotopes