Physics GCSE
Nuclear charge and isotope identity
What Nuclear charge and isotope identity means in Physics GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Nuclear charge and isotope identity
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Nuclear charge equals +Z elementary charges, so isotopes of one element share the same charge, and Z fixes the element so identity is unchanged.
Topics that use Nuclear charge and isotope identity
- Radioactive emissions (OCR GCSE)
Related terms
- Absorbing materials
- Alpha emission
- Beta emission
- conservation of charge
- conservation of mass number
- Conventional nuclear notation
- Electron energy levels
- Emission and absorption of electromagnetic radiation
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