Among the different types of scientific knowledge hypotheses are likely to be modified or discarded most frequently. Long ago in the 1600's scientists discarded the phlogiston theory because the new evidence didnt support it.
Explanation:
Hypothesis is the assumption of something possible or impossible to draw a consequence and is provisionally established as the basis for an investigation and which can confirm or deny its validity. For this reason, within scientific research, hypotheses are so important and so changeable that they are modified or discarded more frequently within scientific knowledge.
Based on a work by Johann Joachim Becher, the German scientist Georg Ernst Stahl created the phlogiston theory that said combustion occurred with certain materials because they had an “element” or a common flammable principle that was released at the time of burning . This theory was abandoned because there was no evidence, even through scientific experiments, to prove that this theory is true.
The number 16 next to the elemental symbol of Nitrogen
which is N indicates the mass number of the element. Now the atomic number of N
is 7, this is also equal to the number of protons or electrons in the nucleus. So
the balance is 16 – 7 = 9 which is being occupied by the neutrons. Therefore
the number of neutrons is:
