{"id":40404,"date":"2020-11-07T01:02:05","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T01:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=40404"},"modified":"2020-11-07T01:02:07","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T01:02:07","slug":"chemistry-what-is-a-nuclide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/chemistry-what-is-a-nuclide\/","title":{"rendered":"Chemistry what is a nuclide?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about chemistry: the tutor mentions <em>nuclide<\/em>.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A <em>nuclide<\/em> is more specific than an atom &#8211; it&#8217;s closer to the idea of an isotope.<\/p>\n<p>An atom is identified by its number of protons, aka its <em>atomic number<\/em>. Yet, the type of atom doesn&#8217;t specify its number of neutrons; hence, <sub>6<\/sub><sup style=\"position: relative; left:-1ex\">12<\/sup><span style=\"position:relative;left: -1ex\">C<\/span> and <sub>6<\/sub><sup style=\"position:relative;left:-1ex\">14<\/sup><span style=\"position:relative;left:-1ex\">C<\/span> are both carbon atoms, even though one has six protons while the other has eight. (The top number, 12 or 14, is the mass, which is the sum of protons and neutrons; the bottom number, 6 in both cases, is the number of protons: carbon, by definition, always has 6 protons. Therefore, <sub>6<\/sub><sup style=\"position: relative; left:-1ex\">12<\/sup><span style=\"position:relative;left: -1ex\">C<\/span> has 6 neutrons, while <sub>6<\/sub><sup style=\"position:relative;left:-1ex\">14<\/sup><span style=\"position:relative;left:-1ex\">C<\/span> has 8.)<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, <sub>6<\/sub><sup style=\"position:relative;left:-1ex\">12<\/sup><span style=\"position:relative;left:-1ex\">C<\/span> is one nuclide, while <sub>6<\/sub><sup style=\"position:relative; left:-1ex\">14<\/sup><span style=\"position:relative; left:-1ex\">C<\/span> is another. That&#8217;s how I understand the term <em>nuclide<\/em>, anyway:)<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chem.libretexts.org\/Bookshelves\/Physical_and_Theoretical_Chemistry_Textbook_Maps\/Supplemental_Modules_(Physical_and_Theoretical_Chemistry)\/Atomic_Theory\/Nuclide%2C_Atomic_Number%2C_mass_number\">chem.libretexts.org<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about chemistry: the tutor mentions nuclide. A nuclide is more specific than an atom &#8211; it&#8217;s closer to the idea of an isotope. An atom is identified by its number of protons, aka its atomic number. Yet, the type &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/chemistry-what-is-a-nuclide\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chemistry what is a nuclide?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40404"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40414,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40404\/revisions\/40414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}