How do you differentiate atomic number by atomic weight?
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atomic weight is always a double of atomic number
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Electrons are even smaller than protons or neutrons, so they are assigned an atomic weight of “0.” The atomic number, the number at the top of each box on the periodic table, represents the number of protons in the nucleus of the atom. ... The atomic mass is the total number of both protons and neutrons combined.
Atomic number is a count of the positive charges of the nucleus.
Atomic weight is an actual weight. But it is not the weight of a single atom, it is the weight of a mole of them, in grams.
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