Question

Hydroge has three isotopes H11 H21 H31 explain why these isotopes jave similar chemical properties

Answer 1

Elements with the same atomic number but a different mass number are defined as “Isotopes”.Generally, the chemical properties of isotopes of any element are almost identical. The exception to this case is the isotopes of hydrogen because the numbers of neutrons have a major effect on the size of the nucleus of a hydrogen atom. this reason is explained below:

Hydrogen has three most stable isotopic forms- protium, deuterium, as well as tritium. All the three isotopic forms of hydrogen have the same number of protons but vary in the number of neutrons. The number of neutrons in protium is zero, the number of neutrons in deuterium is one and the number of neutrons in tritium is two