Sodium (Na) is a metal and metals tend to form cations. Cations are positively charged ions. For experimental purposes Na is assumed to have a 1+ charge anyway, so if you took away another electron the resulting ion would have s stronger positive charge.
when sodium valence electron is transferred to chlorine , both atoms become ions . the sodium atom becomes a positive ion . the chlorine atom becomes a negative ion .
Sodium Chloride does not have free electrons normally, Sodium with electron arrangement: 2,8,1 and Chlorine with electron arrangement: 2,8,7 When they react Sodium ionises to 2,8 ( Ne) Chlorine gains the free electron to ionise to 2,8,8 (Ar) Forming Sodium Chloride or Na+CL-
Sodium chloride is very useful. Sodium ion is the positive ion.
When a valence electron is removed from sodium, the balance of positive and negative charges becomes uneven, resulting in a positively charged ion (Na+). The oxidation number of sodium in this case is +1.
During a reaction it loses a (negative) electron, leading to it having a positive charge.
When the neutral atom of sodium lose an electron become the cation Na+.
In table salt (NaCl), the Na (sodium) atom loses an electron to become positively charged, while the Cl (chlorine) atom gains an electron to become negatively charged. Therefore, the Na atom is positive (+) and the Cl atom is negative (-) in the NaCl compound.
When sodium reacts with chlorine, the product is sodium chloride, which is also known as table salt. It forms an ionic bond, as sodium loses an electron to become a positive ion and chlorine gains an electron to become a negative ion, resulting in the formation of the stable compound sodium chloride.
sodium becomes positive ( as it loses a negative electron but still hs the same number of + protons) with a single + charge. chlorine becomes negative ( as it gains an extra negative electron but still hs the same number of + protons) with a single - charge. NaCl -------> Na+ Cl-
Sodium ions are smaller than sodium atoms because when sodium atoms lose an electron to become an ion, they lose the outermost electron from their electron cloud. This results in a decrease in the electron cloud size around the nucleus, making the ion smaller than the neutral atom.
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If you remove one electron from a sodium atom that has 11 protons, the atom will have 11 positive charges (from the protons) and 10 negative charges (from the electrons). This results in a net positive charge of +1. Therefore, the sodium atom would become a positively charged ion, specifically a sodium ion (Na⁺).