Radioisotopes of elements have same atomic number.

True

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False

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Solution

The correct option is A True
Radioisotopes of elements have same atomic number but different mass numbers.
Thus, they have same number of protons and same number of electrons but they differ in the number of neutrons.

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The isotopes of elements with the atomic number more than 82 are said to be radioisotopes.

Statement 1: Elements having same atomic number cannot have different mass numbers.
Statement 2: Atomic number depends on the number of neutrons.

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