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Structure
Crystal Structure: Cubic

Electron Configuration: 1s22s22p4
Oxygen has 8 protons, 8 neutrons, and 8 electrons.

Oxygen molecules are diatomic as a gas, meaning that atoms occur in pairs joined by a double covalent bond.


Isotopes of the Element Oxygen with a Known Natural Abundance
Natural oxygen is a combination of the following 3 isotopes:
Mass Number ------Natural Abundance ------Half-life
16 ------------------99.762% -----------------Stable
17 -----------------0.038% -------------------Stable
18 -----------------0.200% -------------------Stable

All Known Isotopes of the Element Oxygen

Mass Number Half Life
12 1.14275×10-21 seconds
13 8.58 milliseconds
14 70.606 seconds
15 122.24 seconds
16 Stable
17 Stable
18 Stable
19 26.88 seconds
20 13.51 seconds
21 3.42 seconds
22 2.25 seconds
23 82 milliseconds
24 65 milliseconds
25 50 nanoseconds
26 unknown