{"id":222292,"date":"2025-05-31T08:05:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T08:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=222292"},"modified":"2025-05-31T08:05:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T08:05:52","slug":"three-of-the-isotopes-of-tellurium-te-have-mass-numbers-of-124-126-and-130-tellurium-124-has-52-protons-and-72-neutrons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/31\/three-of-the-isotopes-of-tellurium-te-have-mass-numbers-of-124-126-and-130-tellurium-124-has-52-protons-and-72-neutrons\/","title":{"rendered":"Three of the isotopes of Tellurium, Te, have mass numbers of 124, 126, and 130. Tellurium-124 has 52 protons and 72 neutrons."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Three of the isotopes of Tellurium, Te, have mass numbers of 124, 126, and 130. Tellurium-124 has 52 protons and 72 neutrons. Tellurium-126 has 52 protons and 74 neutrons. Tellurium-130 has 52 protons and 78 neutrons. What is the complete isotope label for each isotope of Tellurium? Which of the subatomic particles has a charge associated with it and what is that charge?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-ast-global-color-1-color\">The Correct Answer and Explanation is<\/mark><\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Correct Answers:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Isotope Labels:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Tellurium-124: \u00b9\u00b2\u2074\u2085\u2082Te<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tellurium-126: \u00b9\u00b2\u2076\u2085\u2082Te<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tellurium-130: \u00b9\u00b3\u2070\u2085\u2082Te<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Charged Subatomic Particle and Its Charge:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Proton<\/strong> has a <strong>positive charge<\/strong> of <strong>+1<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Electron<\/strong> has a <strong>negative charge<\/strong> of <strong>-1<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Neutron<\/strong> has <strong>no charge<\/strong> (neutral).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Explanation <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>An <strong>isotope<\/strong> refers to an atom of the same element that has the same number of <strong>protons<\/strong> but a different number of <strong>neutrons<\/strong>, which results in a different <strong>mass number<\/strong>. All tellurium isotopes have <strong>52 protons<\/strong>, as that is the defining characteristic of the element Tellurium (Te) on the periodic table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>complete isotope label<\/strong> consists of the <strong>mass number<\/strong> (protons + neutrons) as the superscript, the <strong>atomic number<\/strong> (number of protons) as the subscript, followed by the chemical symbol. For example, Tellurium-124 has 52 protons and 72 neutrons, giving it a mass number of 124, written as <strong>\u00b9\u00b2\u2074\u2085\u2082Te<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u00b9\u00b2\u2074\u2085\u2082Te = 52 protons + 72 neutrons<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u00b9\u00b2\u2076\u2085\u2082Te = 52 protons + 74 neutrons<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u00b9\u00b3\u2070\u2085\u2082Te = 52 protons + 78 neutrons<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>These isotopes are chemically similar since they have the same number of protons and electrons (if neutral), but their nuclear stability and atomic mass differ due to the varying number of neutrons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the three main subatomic particles\u2014<strong>protons, neutrons, and electrons<\/strong>\u2014only <strong>protons and electrons<\/strong> carry electric charges. <strong>Protons<\/strong> carry a <strong>+1 charge<\/strong>, while <strong>electrons<\/strong> carry a <strong>-1 charge<\/strong>. <strong>Neutrons<\/strong> are neutral and do not affect the atom\u2019s charge, but they do contribute to the mass and nuclear stability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a neutral atom, the number of protons equals the number of electrons, balancing the positive and negative charges. Understanding the properties of isotopes and subatomic particles is crucial in nuclear chemistry, medicine (like in PET scans), and atomic energy research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/learnexams-banner7-153.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-222293\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three of the isotopes of Tellurium, Te, have mass numbers of 124, 126, and 130. Tellurium-124 has 52 protons and 72 neutrons. Tellurium-126 has 52 protons and 74 neutrons. Tellurium-130 has 52 protons and 78 neutrons. What is the complete isotope label for each isotope of Tellurium? Which of the subatomic particles has a charge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}