If a carbon atom spontaneously loses a proton what element would form?

Negatively charged electrons orbit the nucleus. All atoms of a particular element possess the same number of protons, known as the atomic number. ... Since an element is defined by the number of protons in its atoms, when an atom loses protons, it becomes a different element

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