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Atomic number

Index Atomic number

The atomic number or nuclear charge number (symbol Z) of a chemical element is the charge number of an atomic nucleus. [1]

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  1. 57 relations: Angewandte Chemie, Antonius van den Broek, Argon, Atom, Atomic mass, Atomic nucleus, Bohr model, Charge number, Chemical bond, Chemical element, Cobalt, Dalton (unit), Discovery of chemical elements, Discovery of the neutron, Dmitri Mendeleev, Electric charge, Electron, Electron configuration, Electron shell, Eric Scerri, Ernest Rutherford, Exotic atom, Extended periodic table, Hafnium, Half-life, Henry Moseley, Hydrogen, Iodine, Island of stability, Isotope, James Chadwick, Lanthanide, Lanthanum, Lutetium, Magic number (physics), Mass number, Monoisotopic element, Moseley's law, Neutron, Neutron number, Neutronium, Nickel, Nuclear reaction, Nucleon, Nuclide, Periodic table, Potassium, Proton, Prout's hypothesis, Quantum mechanics, ... Expand index (7 more) »

  2. Atoms
  3. Dimensionless numbers of chemistry

Angewandte Chemie

Angewandte Chemie (meaning "Applied Chemistry") is a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal that is published by Wiley-VCH on behalf of the German Chemical Society (Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker).

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Antonius van den Broek

Antonius Johannes van den Broek (4 May 1870, Zoetermeer – 25 October 1926, Bilthoven) was a Dutch amateur physicist notable for being the first who realized that the number of an element in the periodic table (now called atomic number) corresponds to the charge of its atomic nucleus.

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Argon

Argon is a chemical element; it has symbol Ar and atomic number 18.

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Atom

Atoms are the basic particles of the chemical elements. Atomic number and Atom are atoms.

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Atomic mass

The atomic mass (ma or m) is the mass of an atom. Atomic number and atomic mass are atoms and chemical properties.

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Atomic nucleus

The atomic nucleus is the small, dense region consisting of protons and neutrons at the center of an atom, discovered in 1911 by Ernest Rutherford based on the 1909 Geiger–Marsden gold foil experiment. Atomic number and atomic nucleus are atoms and nuclear physics.

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Bohr model

In atomic physics, the Bohr model or Rutherford–Bohr model is an obsolete model of the atom, presented by Niels Bohr and Ernest Rutherford in 1913.

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Charge number

Charge number (denoted z) is a quantized and dimensionless quantity derived from electric charge, with the quantum of electric charge being the elementary charge (e, constant).

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Chemical bond

A chemical bond is the association of atoms or ions to form molecules, crystals, and other structures.

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Chemical element

A chemical element is a chemical substance that cannot be broken down into other substances by chemical reactions.

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Cobalt

Cobalt is a chemical element; it has symbol Co and atomic number 27.

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Dalton (unit)

The dalton or unified atomic mass unit (symbols: Da or u) is a non-SI unit of mass defined as of the mass of an unbound neutral atom of carbon-12 in its nuclear and electronic ground state and at rest.

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Discovery of chemical elements

The discoveries of the 118 chemical elements known to exist as of 2024 are presented here in chronological order.

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Discovery of the neutron

The discovery of the neutron and its properties was central to the extraordinary developments in atomic physics in the first half of the 20th century.

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Dmitri Mendeleev

Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (sometimes romanized as Mendeleyev, Mendeleiev, or Mendeleef;; Dmitriy Ivanovich Mendeleyev,; 8 February 18342 February 1907) was a Russian chemist and inventor.

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Electric charge

Electric charge (symbol q, sometimes Q) is the physical property of matter that causes it to experience a force when placed in an electromagnetic field. Atomic number and Electric charge are chemical properties.

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Electron

The electron (or in nuclear reactions) is a subatomic particle with a negative one elementary electric charge.

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Electron configuration

In atomic physics and quantum chemistry, the electron configuration is the distribution of electrons of an atom or molecule (or other physical structure) in atomic or molecular orbitals. Atomic number and electron configuration are chemical properties.

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Electron shell

In chemistry and atomic physics, an electron shell may be thought of as an orbit that electrons follow around an atom's nucleus.

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Eric Scerri

Eric R. Scerri (born August 30, 1953, son of Edward and Ines Scerri) is a chemist, writer and philosopher of science of Maltese origin.

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Ernest Rutherford

Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson, (30 August 1871 – 19 October 1937) was a New Zealand physicist who was a pioneering researcher in both atomic and nuclear physics.

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Exotic atom

An exotic atom is an otherwise normal atom in which one or more sub-atomic particles have been replaced by other particles of the same charge.

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Extended periodic table

An extended periodic table theorizes about chemical elements beyond those currently known and proven. Atomic number and extended periodic table are nuclear physics.

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Hafnium

Hafnium is a chemical element; it has symbol Hf and atomic number 72.

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Half-life

Half-life (symbol) is the time required for a quantity (of substance) to reduce to half of its initial value.

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Henry Moseley

Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley (23 November 1887 – 10 August 1915) was an English physicist, whose contribution to the science of physics was the justification from physical laws of the previous empirical and chemical concept of the atomic number.

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Hydrogen

Hydrogen is a chemical element; it has symbol H and atomic number 1.

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Iodine

Iodine is a chemical element; it has symbol I and atomic number 53.

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Island of stability

In nuclear physics, the island of stability is a predicted set of isotopes of superheavy elements that may have considerably longer half-lives than known isotopes of these elements. Atomic number and island of stability are nuclear physics.

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Isotope

Isotopes are distinct nuclear species (or nuclides) of the same chemical element. Atomic number and Isotope are nuclear physics.

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James Chadwick

Sir James Chadwick, (20 October 1891 – 24 July 1974) was an English physicist who was awarded the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the neutron in 1932.

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Lanthanide

The lanthanide or lanthanoid series of chemical elements comprises at least the 14 metallic chemical elements with atomic numbers 57–70, from lanthanum through ytterbium.

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Lanthanum

Lanthanum is a chemical element; it has symbol La and atomic number 57.

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Lutetium

Lutetium is a chemical element; it has symbol Lu and atomic number 71.

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Magic number (physics)

In nuclear physics, a magic number is a number of nucleons (either protons or neutrons, separately) such that they are arranged into complete shells within the atomic nucleus.

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Mass number

The mass number (symbol A, from the German word: Atomgewicht, "atomic weight"), also called atomic mass number or nucleon number, is the total number of protons and neutrons (together known as nucleons) in an atomic nucleus.

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Monoisotopic element

A monoisotopic element is an element which has only a single stable isotope (nuclide).

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Moseley's law

Moseley's law is an empirical law concerning the characteristic X-rays emitted by atoms.

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Neutron

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Neutron number

The neutron number (symbol N) is the number of neutrons in a nuclide. Atomic number and neutron number are nuclear physics.

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Neutronium

Neutronium (or neutrium, or neutrite) is a hypothetical substance made purely of neutrons.

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Nickel

Nickel is a chemical element; it has symbol Ni and atomic number 28.

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Nuclear reaction

In nuclear physics and nuclear chemistry, a nuclear reaction is a process in which two nuclei, or a nucleus and an external subatomic particle, collide to produce one or more new nuclides. Atomic number and nuclear reaction are nuclear physics.

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Nucleon

In physics and chemistry, a nucleon is either a proton or a neutron, considered in its role as a component of an atomic nucleus.

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Nuclide

A nuclide (or nucleide, from nucleus, also known as nuclear species) is a class of atoms characterized by their number of protons, Z, their number of neutrons, N, and their nuclear energy state. Atomic number and nuclide are nuclear physics.

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Periodic table

The periodic table, also known as the periodic table of the elements, is an ordered arrangement of the chemical elements into rows ("periods") and columns ("groups").

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Potassium

Potassium is a chemical element; it has symbol K (from Neo-Latin kalium) and atomic number19.

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Proton

A proton is a stable subatomic particle, symbol, H+, or 1H+ with a positive electric charge of +1 e (elementary charge).

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Prout's hypothesis

Prout's hypothesis was an early 19th-century attempt to explain the existence of the various chemical elements through a hypothesis regarding the internal structure of the atom.

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Quantum mechanics

Quantum mechanics is a fundamental theory that describes the behavior of nature at and below the scale of atoms.

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Relative atomic mass

Relative atomic mass (symbol: A; sometimes abbreviated RAM or r.a.m.), also known by the deprecated synonym atomic weight, is a dimensionless physical quantity defined as the ratio of the average mass of atoms of a chemical element in a given sample to the atomic mass constant. Atomic number and Relative atomic mass are chemical properties.

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Rutherford model

The Rutherford model was devised by Ernest Rutherford to describe an atom.

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Spectral line

A spectral line is a weaker or stronger region in an otherwise uniform and continuous spectrum.

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Tellurium

Tellurium is a chemical element; it has symbol Te and atomic number 52.

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Thomas Royds

Thomas Royds (April 11, 1884 – May 1, 1955) was a British solar physicist who worked with Ernest Rutherford on the identification of alpha radiation as the nucleus of the helium atom, and who was Director of the Kodaikanal Solar Observatory, India.

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Valence electron

In chemistry and physics, valence electrons are electrons in the outermost shell of an atom, and that can participate in the formation of a chemical bond if the outermost shell is not closed.

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X-ray tube

An X-ray tube is a vacuum tube that converts electrical input power into X-rays.

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See also

Atoms

Dimensionless numbers of chemistry

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_number

Also known as Atom number, Atomic numbers, Nuclear charge number, Number of protons, Proton number, Z (Atomic number).

, Relative atomic mass, Rutherford model, Spectral line, Tellurium, Thomas Royds, Valence electron, X-ray tube.