What makes up the atomic number?

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Aug 11, 2016

What makes up the "atomic number............?"atomic number............?

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The number of protons, massive, positively charged particles, that are found the element's nuclear core. The atomic number, ZZ, represents the number of protons in the element's nucleus, and defines the identity of the element:

Z=1, "hydrogen; "Z=2, "helium"; Z=3, " lithium"...................; Z=32," germanium."

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