Sunday, 3 July 2011 @21:45

From the picture, we can see that they have the same number of protons. (17 protons). However, chlorine-35 has 18 neutrons while chlorine-37 have 20 neutrons. Thereofore, they are isotopes as the definition of isotopes is " Different atoms of the same element which have the same number of protons but different number of neutrons".