Question

Hello can somone help me ?

Copper has an atomic number of 29.

That means that there are 29 protons in the nucleus of each copper atom. That's what the atomic number is; the number of protons in an atom of a certain element.

if one copper atom contains 29 protons, how many copper atoms could you make out of 174 protons?

Answer 1

`174 \; \text{protons} / (29 \; \text{copper atoms} \cdot \text{proton}^(-1)) = 6 \; \text{copper atoms}`

Thus 174 protons would make at most 6 copper atoms. However, it would take 174 extra electrons (29 per atom) and even more neutrons than that to construct neutral copper atoms with stable nuclei.