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A scientist discovers that an atom with a mass number of 14 contains eight electrons.

According to the scenario, what is the atom's atomic number?

22
6
8
14
please help

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Answered by DrBob222
The atomic number of ANY element is the number of protons in the nucleus. ANY NEUTRAL atom (and I assume this one is neutral) contains the same number of electrons as protons. And how many electrons are there?

As a side note,
mass number = #protons + # neutrons.
If mass number is 14 and atomic number is ???, then how many neutrons are there?
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