What are isotopes?
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Not at all let me give you an example
A car called a lemono has a distinctive lemon shape;
However a lemona has 2 variants_ one which has 4 wheel drive and one which has 2 wheel drive..They are different cars but both are lemonas
Similarly we call such differentiation in elements as isotopes
All atoms of the same element must have the same number of protons, which gives the identity of an element, and is its atomic number.
Atoms of the same element can have different numbers of neutrons; the different possible versions of each element are called isotopes. For example, the most common isotope of hydrogen has no neutrons at all; there's also a hydrogen isotope called deuterium, with one neutron, and another, tritium, with two neutrons. However, all hydrogen atoms have one proton.
