An element's atomic number is 5. How many protons would an atom of this element have?

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An element's atomic number is 5. How many protons would an atom of this element have?
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The atomic number of an element is also always the amount of protons in the atom. In this case the atomic number is 5, so there would be 5 protons. Lets say we have Carbon, with an atomic number of 6. Carbon would also have 6 protons.