Given that oxygen-16 and oxygen-18 both have an atomic number of 8, how many electrons, protons, and neutrons do these oxygen atoms contain?
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First, we know that the atomic number of oxygen is 8, which means that both oxygen-16 and oxygen-18 have 8 protons in their nucleus. Show more…
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