It would lose an electron
Sodium plus Chlorine is Sodium Chloride.Chemical fomula is NaCl.
Na^+ represents a sodium atom that has lost ONE ELECTRON.
One formula mass of the salt sodium chloride.
The sodium atom is much bigger than a sodium cation with a plus 1 charge, because the "lost" electron of the ion had a higher principal quantum number than any remaining electron in the ion and therefore was distributed through a larger volume of space than any of the remaining electrons.
lose an electron, forms Na+, sodium with a charge of plus one.
it contains 1 more proton that electron.
they lose their outer electron to some other atom.
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The Na+ ion is a sodium atom that has lost an electron and therefore has a single positive charge. Because a neutral sodium atom has one valence electron, it will usually form such an ion when it enters a chemical compound.
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Not quite. The symbol Na+ represents a sodium ion that has lost one electron, giving it a net positive charge. It no longer behaves like a neutral sodium atom and is more reactive in forming compounds.
Sodium ions (Na+) and chloride ions (Cl-) are formed when a sodium atom donates an electron to a chlorine atom. This transfer of electrons creates the stable ionic compounds sodium chloride (NaCl).