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What does a charge on a ion indicate about the number of protons and electrons?
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A positive charge (cation) indicates that there are more protons than electrons.A negative charge (anion) indicates that there are less protons than electrons.
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What is true about a atom that has a neutral charge?
The number of protons is equal to the number of electrons.
How many electrons do protons have?
There are the same number of protons as electrons in each atom unless the atom does not have a neutral charge, if it has a negative charge it has that more electrons, and if it has a positive charge it has that much more protons hope this helps
1 In an electrically neutral atom the number of protons in the nucleus is equal to the number of?
In an atom, the number of electrons is equal to the number of protons in the nucleus of the atom. This only varies in ions, where electrons have been added to an atom or removed to create a full outer shell.
How many electrons orbit the nucleus if the atom has no charge?
If the atom has no charge, then the number of electrons is the same as the number of protons (atomic number).
Atoms are electrically neutral because they have the same number of?
It has the same number of protons and electrons. Because protons have got positive charges while the electrons have got negative charges, so if their amount is the same, the atom will be a neutral one.
What determine the charge of an atom?
It depends on the number of electrons and protons the charge of an atom depends on the number of electrons and the number of protons
What determines the charge of the atom?
It depends on the number of electrons and protons the charge of an atom depends on the number of electrons and the number of protons
How can you find the charge of atom by the electrons?
Electrons have a -1 charge while protons have a +1 charge. Thus, subtracting the number of electrons from the number of protons gives the charge of a species. For example, if a lithium ion has 3 protons and 2 electrons, it has a +1 charge.
What charge is any atom?
the charge depends on the number of protons or electrons, if more electrons are there than protons there is a -1 charge, if there are more protons then electrons it is a +1 charge. Called Ions
Why does an atom have a neutral charge?
it has a neutral charge because it contains an equal number of protons and electrons
What does the number of protons in a atom equal?
Atoms that are neutral must have equal numbers of protons and electrons. This is because protons have a positive charge and electrons have a negative charge. Thus, for the charge to be neutral, the numbers of these particles must be equal.
What determines an element's charge?
The number of protons and electrons in the atom. If the number of protons = number of electrons, it is electrically neutral. If number of protons > number of electrons, it is positively charged. If number of protons < number of electrons, it is negatively charged.
Why doesnt An atom has no electrical charge?
because the number of protons (which have a positive charge of +1) and the number of electrons (which have a negative charge of -1) are the same. when number of protons = number of electrons, overall charge = 0
What do the number of electrons do to the number of protons in a atom?
They do nothing to the number of protons. They balance the charge of the protons in the nucleus.
What has to be true about the protons and the electrons on an atom that is neutrral?
In any atom,there are protons, neutrons and electrons. As the name would suggest, neutrons carry no charge. Protons carry a positive charge and electrons carry a negative charge. So in an atom that has no charge there has to be an equal number of protons and electrons.
A neutral atom has the same number of protons as it does neutrons?
no. an atom is made up of protons neutrons and electrons. protons have a charge of plus one electrons have a charge of minus one neutrons have no charge. therefore the number of protons and electrons must be equal (balancing the charges) for the atom to be neutral. ;)
What is true about a atom that has a neutral charge?
The number of protons is equal to the number of electrons.
