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Question
What is the relationship between an atom containing 11 protons, 11 electrons and 11 neutrons, and another atom containing 11 protons, 11 electrons and 12 neutrons?
Solution
As the number of electrons and protons are same but the number of neutrons are different, these atoms are isotopes of each other.
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