Meaning Of The Word Isotope

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What's The Definition Of Isotope?

isotope in American English
any of two or more forms of an element having the same or very closely related chemical properties and the same atomic number but different atomic weights (or mass numbers)
noun: any of two or more forms of a chemical element, having the same number of protons in the nucleus, or the same atomic number, but having different numbers of neutrons in the nucleus, or different atomic weights. There are 275 isotopes of the 81 stable elem

isotope in British English
noun: one of two or more atoms with the same atomic number that contain different numbers of neutrons

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