What do the numbers mean at the side of an element in the periodic table?
The top number is the total mass number, particles in an atom of an element that have mass are protons and neutrons. So the top number tells us how many protons and neutrons there are in an atom of that element. The bottom number is the proton number, it is simply the number of protons in an atom of the element.
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