What concept did Moseley provide physical justification for?
Atomic weight
Atomic number
Isotope stability
Quantum mechanics
Answer
The atomic number is the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom. It is a fundamental property of an element and determines its chemical properties. The atomic number was first proposed by Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869, but it was not until the work of Henry Moseley in 1913 that it was given physical justification.
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