Question

What does the number 18.9984 represent in the image?

Answer 1

The element symbol in chemistry comprises atomic number and mass number.

Atomic number is written on the top of element and mass number is written at the bottom.

For eg:

If Y is an element that is having atomic number a and mass number x. Then its denotion will be:

ᵃYₓ.

So here ⁹F₁₈.₉₉

Here 18.99 will denote mass number while 9 will denote atomic number.