What is the smallest particle of an ionic compound?

Answer 1

Smallest atom?

The cation. To donate the electron makes your radius smaller.

Na + is the cation in the compound NaCl, while the electron acceptor, Cl -, will have a larger radius.

Answer 2

Most people will say electrons, but recently it has been discovered that protons and neutrons are made up of smaller particles called quarks, and particles that are even smaller than quarks, called gluons (though quarks are not made up of gluons).

There are also leptons, which are usually about the same size as quarks. An electron is a lepton.

There are six different types of quarks, and six different types of leptons, the names of the quarks, are, in order of increasing mass:

Up, Down, Strange, Charm, Bottom and Top

The leptons I can't remember, but one is an electron, which I think is the biggest.

A proton is made up of two tops and one bottom, a neutron I can't remember. Protons and Neutrons (and all particles made up of quarks) are called hadrons, and have three quarks, and then a whole bunch of gluons.

This is an extremely complex field of physics, which I learned about out of personal curiosity several months ago, so I can't remember all the details, but like I said, it sounds bumb, but if you don't believe me, go look it up on wikipedia or something.

The conventional answer to your question though, would be an electron (if you are just counting protons, neutrons and electrons).

An elctron is the smallest atomic particle - All the quarks and stuff are subatomic particles. It really is complicated, the quarks can't exist on there own but only in the form of protons, neutrons etc... The gluons are bosons which carry the strong force and hold the quarks together. All very complex!

Answer 3

The smallest particles that is a ionic bond is a ion.

Answer 4

smallest particle it's a dark matter wave.

Answer 5

formula units

Answer 6

quark

Answer 7

Molecule!

Answer 8

ATOM