An element's atomic number is the

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Any element's atomic number represents the number of protons it contains (D). The mass, weight, and sum of protons and neutrons can change for various isotopes a single element, but any isotope of a single element has the same number of protons.

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D. Number of protons in an atom's nucleus

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