Since the mass of an electron is negligible compared to the masses of a proton and neutron,
The mass of an atom is called
atomic mass
• ——— is approximately equal to the mass number.
Atomic mass
= In 1913, he assigned an atomic number to each element.
Henry Moseley (English, 1887-1915)
The ——— of an element is also the number of protons of that element.
atomic number