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Oxygen-16 (symbol: 16 O or 16 8 O) is a nuclide. It is a stable isotope of oxygen, with 8 neutrons and 8 protons in its nucleus, and when not ionized, 8 electrons orbiting the nucleus. Oxygen-16 has a mass of 15.994 914 619 56 u. It is the most abundant isotope of oxygen and accounts for 99.757% of oxygen's natural abundance. [2]
Oxygen-13 is an unstable isotope, with 8 protons and 5 neutrons. It has spin 3/2−, and half-life 8.58(5) ms. Its atomic mass is 13.024 815 (10) Da. It decays to nitrogen-13 by electron capture, with a decay energy of 17.770(10) MeV. Its parent nuclide is fluorine-14.
Examples include carbon-14, nitrogen-15, and oxygen-16 in the table above. Isobars are nuclides with the same number of nucleons (i.e. mass number) but different numbers of protons and neutrons. Isobars neighbor each other diagonally from lower-left to upper-right. Examples include carbon-14, nitrogen-14, and oxygen-14 in the table above.
At least 3,300 nuclides have been experimentally characterized [1] (see List of radioactive nuclides by half-life for the nuclides with decay half-lives less than one hour). A nuclide is defined conventionally as an experimentally examined bound collection of protons and neutrons that either is stable or has an observed decay mode .
The neutrinos escape from the star carrying away some energy. [2] One nucleus goes on to become carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen isotopes through a number of transformations in a repeating cycle. Overview of the CNO-I Cycle. The proton–proton chain is more prominent in stars the mass of the Sun or less.
The oxidation state of oxygen is −2 in almost all known compounds of oxygen. The oxidation state −1 is found in a few compounds such as peroxides. [125] Compounds containing oxygen in other oxidation states are very uncommon: −1/2 (superoxides), −1/3 , 0 (elemental, hypofluorous acid), +1/2 , +1 (dioxygen difluoride), and +2 (oxygen ...
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This is related to nuclear magic numbers, the number of nucleons forming complete shells within the nucleus, e.g. 2, 8, 20, 28, 50, 82, and 126. No more than one observationally stable nuclide has the same odd neutron number, except for 1 ( 2 H and 3 He), 5 ( 9 Be and 10 B), 7 ( 13 C and 14 N), 55 ( 97 Mo and 99 Ru), and 107 ( 179 Hf and 180m Ta).