The Periodic Table is brilliant for providing information about each element systematically. The atomic number tells us how many protons (the positively charged component of the nucleus) and how many ...

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Thus p, the charge number, is identical with Moseley's atomic number, Z, which determines the position of the element in the periodic table. The mass number, A, is the sum of n and p. For example ...

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