how can we know how many electrons an atom has?

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How did scientists count exact number of electrons, protons and neutrons of an atom?

How do we know that hydrogen has 1 electron and oxygen has 8 electrons?

Dont these numbers just represent some kind of **ratio** of charge or something?

Or is it exact integer value representing countable number of things in atom?

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Its the exact “integer” value of a charge, an electron does not have the charge of 1 so its not literaly an interger but all atoms cores and its shell have some integer multiple of that charge.

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