Is carbon dioxide a cation or anion?

Answer 1

Carbon dioxide is a neutral molecule. Cations have a positive (+) charge, anions have a negative charge

Answer 2

Carbon generally forms covalent compounds rather than cations or anions.

There are, in organic chemistry, things called carbanions and carbocations. Generally these are transient states rather than stable species, though delocalized electrons (from, say, a nearby resonant system) can help stabilize these.

Answer 3

whats a cation or anion in the first place.... wait the answer is TENACIOUS D!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 4

CO2 is actually a molecule binded through a covalent bond! Within the molecule, Carbon would be the cation and Oxygen, the anion.

Answer 5

no ion can be form

Answer 6

Neither. It is a chemical compound.

Answer 7

cation