Can someone answer dis: 3) When you take the atomic weight and subtract the atomic number, you are finding the number of in the atom.

If we subtract the atomic number from the atomic mass: atomic mass - atomic number = number of protons + number of neutrons - number of protons. Thus we get the number of neutrons present in an atom when we subtract the atomic number from the atomic mass.

Explanation: hope this helps???

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