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Question
What are isobars ? Explain with an example.
Solution
Isobars are atoms of different chemical elements that have the same mass number but different atomic number i.e., same number of protons but different number of neutrons.
For example, `""_18^40"Ar" and ""_20^40"Ca"` are isobars with same mass number but different atomic numbers.
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