[Lawsen Lew]

One will need to get a Periodic Table of elements. Wikipedia would be great to see pictures and to read about the elements. You do not need the web to learn about elements, if one is too poor to have computer access or none available. All your answers are on the Periodic Table of elements.

Take Radium for example, it has atomic number 88. The atomic numbers indicate two facts, the number of protons and number electrons in the element's neutral state, no charge, like an elemental atom.

Radium has 88 protons and 88 electrons. Some Periodic Tables have a column of numbers on the side of the box. These might be the number of electrons in each shell in a cloud of electrons surrounding the nucleus of the atom.

The number of neutrons is figured by subtracting the atomic weight with the atomic mass or weight. The number of electron mass might be insignificant.

226.0254 g/mol of Radium is the atomic weight and this comes from the Periodic Table, too.

226.0254 - 88 = 138.025 = 138 neutrons. We could not have 0.025 neutrons

Radium is a great neutron source, it gives off neutrons, therefore it is radioactive.

Conclusion: Radium has 88 protons and 88 neutrons and 138 neutrons.

Some elements have different oxidation states, that influence the number of electrons.

Some elements have different number of neutrons, thus that element has different isotopes with different atomic mass, weight in grams per mole. The mole is 6.023* 10^23 of something, atoms of the element. 226.0254 grams of radium have 6.023*10^23 radium atoms.

Please, try other elements for fun, better try all 110 of them. Do one per day and in 110 days, you will finished all of them. Some have variable oxidation states, different numbers of electrons and others have different isotopes giving you different numbers of neutrons.

You will be 110 days older and you will have 110 days less to live, too.

I wish this will be of help to you.