What is the number of atoms for each elements? NaCI

1 Answer
Apr 13, 2018

There are 2 atoms in NaCl.

This is because there is 1 atom of Na (sodium) and 1 atom of Cl (chlorine) in each NaCl molecule.

Elements by themselves do not have a "number of atoms"- if you're talking about the atomic number, it's the number of protons (or electrons in a neutral atom) of an element. For Na it is 11 and for Cl it is 17.

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