{"id":262860,"date":"2025-07-20T19:53:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T19:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/?p=262860"},"modified":"2025-07-20T19:53:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T19:53:55","slug":"write-the-nuclear-symbol-dor-an-isotope-with-6-more-neutrons-and-3-more-protons-than-chromium-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/20\/write-the-nuclear-symbol-dor-an-isotope-with-6-more-neutrons-and-3-more-protons-than-chromium-53\/","title":{"rendered":"write the nuclear symbol dor an isotope with 6 more neutrons and 3 more protons than chromium-53"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>write the nuclear symbol dor an isotope with 6 more neutrons and 3 more protons than chromium-53<\/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<p>The isotope you&#8217;re describing has 6 more neutrons and 3 more protons than <strong>chromium-53<\/strong>. Chromium-53 (Cr-53) has the following nuclear properties:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Protons (atomic number)<\/strong>: 24<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Neutrons (mass number &#8211; atomic number)<\/strong>: 53 &#8211; 24 = 29<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, adding 3 more protons and 6 more neutrons:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Protons<\/strong>: 24 + 3 = 27 (This changes the element to <strong>Cobalt (Co)<\/strong>, since cobalt has an atomic number of 27.)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Neutrons<\/strong>: 29 + 6 = 35<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Mass number<\/strong>: Protons + Neutrons = 27 + 35 = 62<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus, the isotope is <strong>Cobalt-62<\/strong>. Its nuclear symbol would be written as:Co6227\\text{Co}_{62}^{27}Co6227\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Explanation:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>atomic number (27)<\/strong> tells you the number of protons, which uniquely identifies the element as cobalt. The <strong>mass number (62)<\/strong> is the sum of the protons and neutrons. In this case, 3 additional protons make the element cobalt instead of chromium, and 6 more neutrons result in a mass number of 62. The <strong>nuclear symbol<\/strong> represents the element&#8217;s identity and the total number of nucleons (protons and neutrons) in the nucleus, with the atomic number written as a subscript and the mass number as a superscript.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, the nuclear symbol for this isotope is <strong>Co-62<\/strong> or written in full as <strong>2762Co_{27}^{62}Co2762\u200bCo<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/learnexams-banner6-1249.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-262861\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>write the nuclear symbol dor an isotope with 6 more neutrons and 3 more protons than chromium-53 The Correct Answer and Explanation is: The isotope you&#8217;re describing has 6 more neutrons and 3 more protons than chromium-53. Chromium-53 (Cr-53) has the following nuclear properties: Now, adding 3 more protons and 6 more neutrons: Thus, the [&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-262860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exams-certification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262860","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=262860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learnexams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}