Scientists in a lab are working with two different samples of the element mercury. They know that the different samples are different isotopes. Which property of the isotopes must be different?

Isotopes are atoms of the same element, so they have the same element name, atomic number, and number of protons. They differ in the number of neutrons, which makes their mass numbers different. Therefore, the mass number must be different.

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