Definition of isotope

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isotope

The term 'isotope ' as it applies to the area of basic science can be defined as 'any of two or more species of atoms of a chemical element with the same atomic number and nearly identical chemical behavior, but with differing atomic mass and mass number and different physical properties'.

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