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Originally posted by Sapper
Actually .. you are FAR more likely to have an equal number of protons and neutrons than you are protons to electrons. This is all mathematical average anyways - considering that there are three common carbon isotopes in nature.
The above method has widely been accepted as the most accurate. Using percent composition will not account for biological variances in trace elements whereas the AMU method will - based on using mass vs. %
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Tell you what, give me a link so I can research it myself.
And I didn't expect to get into a debate in "Knowledge", but there is a one to one relationship of protons to electrons in an atom (not ion) BY DEFINITION. So while low Z elements corrolate closely on the number of protons to neutrons, they will ALWAYS be the same when it comes to electrons and protons.
For example, sodium has 11 electrons and 11 protons but 12 neutrons.