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- Standard atomic weight is used to give the value of the mean of the atomic masses in a mixture of isotopes in a given sample of an element. Atomic Mass of First 30 Elements. Given below is a table that lists the first 30 elements based on atomic number and their corresponding atomic mass.
- Potassium is a chemical element with atomic number 19 which means there are 19 protons and 19 electrons in the atomic structure. The chemical symbol for Potassium is K. Potassium was first isolated from potash, the ashes of plants, from which its name derives. In the periodic table, potassium is one of the alkali metals.
Potassium is used in glass making and is found in fertilizers and soaps. Potassium is in group one, and is the 4th element down in it's column. This tells us that it is an alkali metal. It is very reactive, has a low density, and is a good reducing agent. Potassium can form an alloy with (Na ) that has a low vapor pressure and melting point.
Answer 1:As you may know, atoms are composed of three different types of particles: protons, neutrons, which are found in the nucleus, and electrons which are found in the electron cloud around the nucleus. Protons and neutrons are responsible for most of the atomic mass. The atomic mass for protons and neutrons is the same. A proton has an atomic mass of 1 u (unified atomic mass). The mass of an electron is very small. Protons have a positive (+) charge, neutrons have no charge --they are neutral. Electrons have a negative charge (-). The number of protons and electrons is the same in a neutral (uncharged) atom.
How can you find out how many protons (= electrons) an element has? You look at the periodic table. In this table the elements are listed according to their atomic number. Hydrogen is the first element with an atomic number of 1. Now, the atomic number is also the number of protons in an element. It is always constant. (e.g., H=1, K=19, Ur=92). So if you look for potassium (symbol K in the periodic table), you will find that it has the atomic number of 19. This tells you that potassium has 19 protons and - since the number of protons is the same as the number of electrons- also 19 electrons.
To find out the number of neutrons you have to look at the atomic mass or weight of the element. This can also be found in the periodic table. It is the number under the element symbol. For potassium it is about 39. This means that the atomic weight is 39 for both protons and neutrons. Since we know that the number of protons is 19 we can calculate the number of neutrons (39 19) as 20.
Things can be a bit more complicated however. The same element may contain varying numbers of neutrons; elements that have the same number of protons but different numbers of neurons are called isotopes. Oxygen, with atomic number of 8, for example, can have 8, 9, or 10 neutrons. (The atomic number for oxygen is 8, and the atomic mass is 15.9994).
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Download jmp mac. If you read the atomic weight for potassium it reads 39.098. This tells you that there must be some other isotopes for potassium. In fact, natural potassium has three isotopes with 20, 21 and 22 neutrons with the abundance of 93.26 %, 0.01 % and 6.73 % respectively.
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Atomic No Of Potassium Permanganate
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