Chemical and Process Engineering

Isotopes Identification

The fact that each isotope has one proton makes them all variants of hydrogen: the identity of the isotope is given by the number of protons and neutrons. From left to right, the isotopes are protium (1H) with zero neutrons, deuterium (2H) with one neutron, and tritium (3H) with two neutrons. Isotopes are members of a family of an element that all have the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons.