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When a bromine atom reacts with a metal, it tends to gain an electron from the metal.
Classic answer is to "satisfy" a full valance ring of electrons.
Metals all tend to lose electrons when they react, but aside from that there is a wide variety in the reacts metals undergo.
NO. Nonmetals tend to GAIN electrons to complete their outer shell. By gaining electrons, they become a negatively charged species, which is what an anion is. Metals tend to LOSE electrons to end up with a full outer shell; in losing electrons, they develop a positive charge (become cations).
Non metals tend to be at the Right Hand Side of the periodic table. They therefore tend to need to GAIN electrons to get a stable octet-noble gas configuration. Gaining electrons mean they become anions. The reverse is true for metals.
nonmetals tend to gain electrons when they react
When a bromine atom reacts with a metal, it tends to gain an electron from the metal.
Classic answer is to "satisfy" a full valance ring of electrons.
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In chemistry, metals are the elements that tend to lose electrons when they react to form compounds; Non-metals tend to gain electrons when they form compounds. When metals and non-metals react and exchange electrons with one another they form an ionic bond.
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Metals all tend to lose electrons when they react, but aside from that there is a wide variety in the reacts metals undergo.
They tend to gain electrons when reacting with a metal. Metals generally are short of a full octet by 1 to 4 valence electrons. It is easier to drop 2 electrons than try to gain 6 electrons. The elements in group four can go either way, but the other metals will give up electrons, and non-metals will take them.
Metals tend to form bonds by gaining electrons.
NO. Nonmetals tend to GAIN electrons to complete their outer shell. By gaining electrons, they become a negatively charged species, which is what an anion is. Metals tend to LOSE electrons to end up with a full outer shell; in losing electrons, they develop a positive charge (become cations).
Nonmetals tend to gain electrons to form ions so as to obtain noble gas configuration.
Well it is kind of impossible to tell correctly. Most of the atoms tend to gain electrons (as in the case of nonmetals), lose electrons (as in the case of metals) or share electrons (as in the case of carbon or silicon) and try to attain the stable electronic configuration of noble gases.