Help with protons? (short question) 10 PTS!!!?

Question

ok i know how you find electrons and neutrons

ex: carbon has 6 neutrons and 6 electrons

but how do you find out how many protons it has?

what are protons?

Answer 1

You just need to look at the atomic number for the given element. That is how you find protons, no calculations needed.

Answer 2

In an atom the number of protons is equal to the number of electrons. A stable atom must have a net charge of 0  

Answer 3

There are as many protons in an atom as electrons. So in your example there would be 6 protons.

- Electrons: particles with a negative charge

- Protons: particles with a positive charge

- Neutrons: particles with no charge (neutral)

Answer 4

protons are the positive particles in the atoms.  the number of protons is determined by the atomic number.  the neutrons and electrons in an atom differ.  to determine the number of neutrons in an atom you take the atomic mass and subtract the number of protons and then round the answer to nearest whole number for the number of neutrons.  for electrons you have to look at the charge of the atom.  you need to subtract the charge from the number of protons.  if the charge is negative then the double negative will cancel out and give you the correct electron number grater than number of protons and if the charge is positive than you still subtract the charge from the number of protons to get the correct number of electrons.

Answer 5

If u have an atom in its fundamental state, it contains the same number of protons and electrons. Protons are elemental particles which are charged positively and form the nucleus of an atom with the neutrons. They were first discovered shooting alpha particles (helium nucleus) against a thin layer of gold, and researchers found that some of them went back instead of going thought the layer. This is due to charged particles interaction (coulomb's law) and the mass concentrated in the center of the atoms.

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Answer 6

relative atomic mass - number of nuetron=number of protons

12-6=6