What chemical elements are called isotopes? Give examples of hydrogen isotopes.
August 30, 2020 | Education
| Elements that have the same charge number and different mass numbers are called isotopes.For example, there are three isotopes of a hydrogen atom in nature: protium (1 (1) H) – a hydrogen atom contains only one proton, heavy hydrogen – deuterium (2 (1) H ) whose nucleus consists of a proton and a neutron, and tritium (3 (1) H), the nucleus of which includes a proton and two neutrons.
