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vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Electric charge | Fundamental property of matter that can be either positive or negative. |
| Elementary charge | Smallest unit of electric charge |
| Electron | Particle with a negative charge |
| Nucleus | Center of an atom |
| Proton | Positively charged particle |
| Neutron | Particle with no charge (neutral) |
| Atomic number | The number of protons in the nucleus of an atom |
| Isotope | Atoms of the same element with different amounts of neutrons |
| Mass number | The number of protons and neutrons in an atom |