What are the number of types of atom in the element carbon?

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What are the number of types of atom in the element carbon?

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Answer 1 · 2017-08-16T05:48:18

There are about 2-3 relevant isotopes.

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Most carbon chemistry is concerned with the $^{12} C$ $""^12C$ isotope. This is approx. 98.9% abundant. Of course, for carbon, $Z = 6$ $Z=6$ , and this means that the nucleus contains 6 neutrons, 6 neutral, massive particles.

Approx. 1% of carbon atoms are the $^{13} C$ $""^13C$ isotope. The nucleus is amenable to $^{13} C$ $""^13C$ $NMR spectroscopy$ $"NMR spectroscopy"$ , and as such is a very important means of characterization for organic chemistry.

There is a vanishingly small percentage of $^{14} C$ $""^14C$ , and this has a use in radiocarbon dating.

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