Students use the terms isotope, atomic number, mass number, and atomic mass. Atomic Theory: Structure of the Atom: Students use the terms isotope, atomic number, mass number, and atomic mass to ...

All three isotopes of hydrogen have identical chemical properties. This is because the number of electrons determines chemical properties, and all three isotopes have one electron in their atoms. An ...

For the first time, physicists have developed a model that explains the origins of unusually stable magic nuclei based ...

For the first time those little numbers that appear beneath some of the commonest elements in the periodic table boxes are about to change from a single value to an interval of numbers An ...

An international research collaboration has provided experimental and theoretical evidence for the existence of the magic number of six in carbon isotopes. The researchers experimentally determined ...

WHEN U.S. businessmen contemplate the peacetime uses of atomic energy, the talk revolves around huge nuclear-power plants to generate electricity. But while the nation’s first large-scale ...