What determines the identity of a chemical element?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: B. Its number of protons
- Step 1: The atomic number, which is the number of protons, defines the element.
Answer
Its number of protons.
Why not the others: Neutrons vary between isotopes of the same element, and the mass number changes with them.
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