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Answer 1

Carbon-12 is one of the two naturally occuring isotopes of carbon that are stable, along with C-13.

`""_6^12"C"` has an atomic number equal to 6 and a mass number equal to 12, which means that it has 6 protons and 6 neutrons in its nucleus.

Since it's a neutral atom, the number of orbiting electrons must be equal to the number of protons, which implies that it has 6 electrons.