Chemistry, asked by shiyou836, 7 months ago

The mass number of chlorine is 35.5, protons and neutrons can not be halved, so why do we not have a whole number?

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Answered by mahashrikannan2466

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The answer to why chlorine has an atomic weight of 35.5 not 35 is because of something called isotopes. Isotopes are atoms with the same number of protons (in the case of chlorine that means 17 protons) but different numbers of neutrons. Chlorine has two common isotopes, Chlorine-35 and Chlorine-37.

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