ISOTONE
Nuclide half-lives colorcoded Two nuclides are isotones if they have the very same neutron number N , but different proton number Z . For example, boron-12 and carbon-13 nuclei both contain 7 neutrons , and so are isotones. Similarly, 36 S, 37 Cl, 38 Ar, 39 K, and 40 Ca nuclei are all isotones of 20 because they all contain 20 neutrons. Despite its similarity to the Greek for "same stretching", the term was formed by the German physicist K. Guggenheimer [ 1 ] by replacing the "p" in " isotope " with "n" for "neutron". [ 2 ] The largest numbers of observationally stable nuclides exist for isotones 50 (five; 86 Kr, 88 Sr, 89 Y, 90 Zr, 92 Mo) and 82 (six; 138 Ba, 139 La, 140 Ce, 141 Pr, 142 Nd, 144 Sm). Neutron numbers for which there are no stable isotones are 19, 21, 35, 39, 45, 61, 71, 89, 115, 123, and 127 or more. In contrast, the proton numbers for which there are no stable isotopes are 43, 61, and 83 or more. [ ...