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What is the use of isotope of oxygen?

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The isotopes are not manufactured for specific uses, they occur in nature naturally.

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What do you call an oxygen atom with more than 8 neutrons?

it would be an isotope of oxygen, it is pretty uncommen to have an isotope of oxygen other than oxygen-8 but the most commen isotope after that is oxygen-9 (oxygen with 9 neutrons).


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The simple answer is 8 neutrons. But this depends on which oxygen isotope you are talking about. Oxygen-16, the most abundant oxygen isotope, has 8 neutrons.


Is oxygen-18 a common isotope?

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Is ozone the isotope of oxygen?

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What form of oxygen is radioactive oxygen-15 or oxygen-16?

The isotope oxygen-15 is radioactive.


How much subatomic particles does oxygen have?

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Why doesn't it matter which isotope of oxygen you breath?

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What describes an isotope of the commonly occuring oxygen atom which has 8 electrons 8 protons and 8 neutrons?

what is an isotope? An isotope is a different form of an element's atom that does not change the identity of the atom. I believe that the isotope would be Oxygen-16 due to the atomic mass of such an atom.


What do oxygen-17 and oxygen-18 have in common?

All oxygen atoms have 8 protons, regardless of the isotope.


How many valence electrons does oxygen-16 have?

Six, as does any other isotope of oxygen.


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