Periodic Table and Elements Question
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Oxygen, O (atomic number 8), is in group 16 in the periodic table.
What would happen to this oxygen-16 atom if it loses two protons and two neutrons?
What would happen to this oxygen-16 atom if it loses two protons and two neutrons?
- Nitrogen-14 would be the end product.
- It would become the isotope oxygen-12.
- It would transform into the atom carbon-12.
- The oxygen-16 would have an electrical charge of 2-.