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Which reactive element will gain or loses an electron?
Generally metals lose electrons and nonmetals gain electrons.
Can atoms lose or gain atoms to form elements?
No. Atoms of an element lose or gain electrons to form ions.
Do atoms lose protons but seldom lose or gain electrons?
Atoms typically do not lose protons because that would change the identity of the element. Instead, atoms can lose or gain electrons to form ions with a different charge. Protons are not generally lost by atoms in chemical reactions.
What determines the oxidation state of an element?
The oxidation state of an element is determined by the number of electrons it loses or gains when forming a compound. It depends on the element's position in the periodic table and its ability to either lose or gain electrons to achieve a stable electron configuration. The rules for assigning oxidation states are based on the idea that atoms tend to gain or lose electrons to achieve a full outer shell.
What is formed by the sharing or gain and loss of electrons?
An ion is formed by the sharing of electrons. An ion is an atom of an element with a charge. Atoms lose or gain electrons to get the stable electronic configuration of the nearest gas.
How many electrons will strontium gain or lose when forming an ion?
Strontium, element with atomic number 38, will lose 2 electrons to form a stable ion as it tends to lose electrons to attain a noble gas configuration.
When compounds gain electrons they lose or gain energy?
Lose
When atoms lose or gain electrons they from?
When atoms lose or gain electrons, they form ions. These are charged particles.
Will Se lose or gain electrons and how many?
Se will gain electrons
How many electrons are lost or gained in the element o when they form ions?
atoms gain and lose electrons, so they can have a full outer shell of 8 electrons (or two electrons if its the innermost shell) when atoms lose electrons it is called oxidation and when they gain electrons they are said to be reduced. OIL RIG is most commonly used to help remember that oxidation is loss and reduction is gain of electons. when atoms lose electrons they are left with a positive charge and when they can electrons they have a negative charge.
The lose of electrons from a molucule is called?
Lose electrons is oxidation. To gain electrons is reduction.
In orde rto be like noble gas an element can change which subatomic particle?
An element can either gain or lose electrons to achieve a noble gas electron configuration. Such an electron configuration gives an atom of an element a full outer shell, thereby making that element's ion nonreactive. Metals tend to lose electrons, and become cations, whereas nonmetals tend to gain electrons, and become anions. The amount of electrons an element gains of loses is based on the group/family the element is found in on the Periodic Table.
