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In history, a scientist named monsori has given an ordering for the periodic table based off the atomic mass of different elements.
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Currently, this is not how we order the periodic table.
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Instead, we order the periodic table based off the number of protons in the elements.
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However, often, this gives you the same results as with ordering by atomic number.
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So as an example, we have carbon, which has six protons, nitrogen, which has seven protons, and oxygen, which has eight protons.
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Now, we order them in this way now because carbon has six protons, nitrogen has seven, oxygen has eight protons, and so they're in ascending order.
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But if we also look at their atomic masses, it also is an increasing order, where carbon has an atomic mass of 12, nitrogen in atomic mass of 14, and oxygen in atomic mass of 16.
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And generally, this comes hand in hand, because as you add more protons into an add element, it becomes heavier...