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When metals react with other elements the atoms of the metals loose or gain electrons?
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They will loose electrons.
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When metals react with other elements do the atoms of the metals gain or lose?
Metals are likely to make anions. So they lose electrons to get a positive charge. The other elements gain electrons and get negatively charged.
What type of elements gain and loose electrons as they form bonds?
Metals lose electrons, nonmetals gain electrons.
If metals loose electrons to non metals are metals now anions?
No, it is not true. When metals loose electrons they become cations.
What types of atoms form positive ions?
atoms that belong to a metal element....because metals always loose electrons and gain a positive charge..!
What is a substance that has lost or gained electrons?
Most atoms have the ability to lose electrons, given the conditions are favorable, e.g. in a chemical reaction, but the ones that loose their electrons easiest are the ones with only a few electrons in their outer shell, such as the alkali metals and alkaline earth metals which only have 1 and two electrons, respectively.
What is Ionic size?
During reaction of metals and non-metals, metal atoms tend to loose electrons and non-metal atoms tend to gain electrons. This transfer of electrons has a predictable offect on the size of the ions that form, and that predictable effect on the size is called the ionic size.
When nonmetals and metals react which atom electrons?
Metals loss electrons and nonmetals gain electrons.
Do elements in group 2A gain or loose electrons when they become ions?
Lose 2Alkaline-earth metals have 2 outer shell electrons. All atoms "want" eight. They will achieve a full outer shell by losing or gaining the least number of electrons. Since group 2A elements have two valence electrons, they would either have to gain 6 electrons or lose 2. It is easier to lose 2.
Do metals usually gain or loose electrons to be stable?
Metals will LOSE electrons to become stable.
Why are metals better conductors than ceramics?
Metals are better conductors than ceramics because they have a large number of loose electrons. Electricity has loose electrons.
What is the charge of ions and positive ions?
There are two types of charges of ions that are the negative and the positive charges. Ionic bonding is between 2 types of elements;the metals and non-metals. Metals loose electrons while non-metals gain electrons. when they form ions they obtain charges. The metals always gain a positive charge as they loose electrons while the non-metals always gain a negative charge as they gain electrons.
What type of element tends to lose electrons when bonds form?
Metals because metals are mostly on the left side of the Periodic Table and have fewer electrons.
