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What results after an atom gains electrons?
Electrons have a positive charge and protons have a negative charge. An atom's nucleus is 99.95% of its weight. When an object gains more electrons, it gains a negative charge that over comes the positive charge. This only happens when there are more electrons than protons.
What do you call an atom When an atom losses or gains electrons its called an?
cell
How does an atom change to a negatively charged ion what happens to the subatomic partieles?
An atom gains a negative charge by gaining extra electrons. When this happens, the atom becomes an ion. The number of protons in the nucleus remains the same, but the number of electrons increases, leading to an overall negative charge.
In an oxidation reaction a molecule atom or ion losses electrons or gains?
losses electrons
An ion is formed when am atom?
An ions is formed when an atom gains or loses electrons.
When an atom gains or looses electrons what to the charge of atom?
When an atom gains electrons, it becomes negatively charged because it now has more electrons than protons. When an atom loses electrons, it becomes positively charged because it now has more protons than electrons.
What happens when an atom loses an electron to another atom?
When an atom loses an electron to another atom, it becomes positively charged because it now has more protons than electrons. The atom that gains the electron becomes negatively charged because it now has more electrons than protons. This transfer of electrons creates ions that may attract or repel each other depending on their charges.
An atom becomes an anion when?
When the number of protons or electrons is not even (more protons than electrons or the opposite).
What happenes to the charge of and atom when it gains electrons?
when atoms gain electrons they acquire negative charge
What happens to the charge of an atom when it gains electron?
The charge of the atom is no longer neutral because the number of electrons is greater than the number of protons. Because the charge of the atom is now negative, it is now not a pure element, but an ion. An ion is an element that is no longer pure because it has gained or lost electrons. The charge of the ion is negative because it has more electrons than protons, and electrons have negative charges and protons have positive charges.
What happens to the structure of an atom to change the atom into an ion?
An atom becomes an ion by gaining or losing electrons. When an atom loses electrons, it becomes a positively charged ion (cation) as it has more protons than electrons. On the other hand, when an atom gains electrons, it becomes a negatively charged ion (anion) as it has more electrons than protons.
Does an atom change with positive charges?
When an atom gains a positive charge, it loses one or more electrons. This alters its charge but not its identity as an element. The number of protons, which defines the element, remains the same in a positively charged atom.
