It also tells us that chlorine has 18 neutrons (35 - 17) and, as the number of electrons and protons are equal in a neutral atom, chlorine also has 17 electrons. The relative mass of a nucleus is ...

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Microsoft and Atom Computing say they've reached a new milestone in their effort to build fault-tolerant quantum computers.