Nuclide
The atomic mass of phosphorous-31 is 30,97376163(20).
The standard a.m.u. is 1/12th of the mass of a Carbon 12 nuclide.
Carbon 12
Any change of the atomic number.
Atomic mass is equal to the number of protons + neutrons present in the nuclide. The atomic number is defined as the number of protons in the nuclide. Therefore to find the number of neutrons use the formula: atomic mass = #protons + # neutrons solving for # of neutrons you get: # neutrons = atomic mass - # protons plug in the given values: #neutrons = 31 - 15 # neutrons = 16
A nuclide is an atomic species, having a defined number of protons, neutrons and also electrons on the orbit.
The superscript is the mass number (179); the subscript is the atomic number (72).
The number of protons in a nuclide is the atomic number for that element on the periodic table.
mass spectrometric analysys
Atomic number is the number of protons in a nuclide. This identifies the element. Mass number is the number of nucleons in a nuclide, a nucleon being a proton or a neutron. This, together with the atomic number, identifies which isotope of the element it is.
12. When a nuclide is (properly) named in the form [element name]-[number], the number is always the mass number.