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Having a net electrical charge, either positive or negative while in the compound. For example, common table salt is a chemical compound named sodium chloride and contains only two kinds of atomic nuclei: those of sodium and chlorine atoms. However this compound does not have the chemical characteristics of either of its constituent elements, because all of its atomic-sized chemical units with the same number of protons as a sodium atom are actually sodium ions with one positive charge, and all of its atomic-scale chemical units with same number of protons as a chlorine atom are actually chloride anions with one negative charge.

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