That is why it is called Neutron, however it consists of two down quarks and one up quark and it is the heaviest particle in the atom, slightly heavier then Proton. The charge on an up quark is + 2/3. The charge on a down quark is -1/3. When you add the charges of the quarks inside a neutron you have: +2/3 - ((1/3) * 2) = 0 Therefore a neutron has zero charge
it is neutral because there are as many protons as there are electrons. protons are positively charges and electrons are negatively charged and because there are equally amounts it the cancel each other out becoming neutral
this is wrong because neutron is a separate entity (proved by NMR).
Neutrons have no charge for the same reason that plastics (and other insulators don't). They just don't.
This isn't a great answer, but the thing with charge is that we don't really know what "charge" is. We know that certain "charged" objects will attract some objects, while repelling . We also know that other other "charged" objects will behave the same way, but when the two charged objects are brought together, they repell.
As a matter of convenience, we have labeled some charges positive and some negative, but the only way to tell if some new object is "positive" or "negative" is to bring it in contact with another object we've already determined the poles on. Its all realtively arbitrary and has nothing to do with the composition of the atoms themselves.
Objects that neither attract nor repell, like the neutron, don't affect other particles and that's really all there is to it.
Quantum mechanics is starting to give us an idea about where charge comes from; it may be a result of the combination of quarks that form each sub-atomic particle, determined by the spin of the quark, but even this doesn't REALLY answer the question, just kind of postpones it.
It is made of a proton(positive) and an electron(negative) which cancel each other out.
Because number of negative electrons rotation around the atom equal to number of positive protons in the nucleus.
yes
Yes.
atoms, molecules, neutrons, neutrinos, photons and others
Atoms have NO electric charge, only ions have (+ or -)
Atoms either gain or lose electrons to change their overall neutral charge.
Atoms that are neutral in charge have the same quantity of protons and electrons. Negative ions have extra electrons, and positive ions are missing electrons.
It is because an atom consists of electrons(negatively charged) and protons(positively charged) and neutrons(no charge), and the no. of electrons and protons are equal. So due to opposite charges between an electron and a proton, an atom has no electric charge or is said to be neutral.
Particles in an atoms nucleus which do not have electric charge are Neutrons.
Electric charge is a property of some subatomic particles. Atoms can be neutral (zero electric charge), or they can have a charge. If they have a charge, they are called ions.
atoms, molecules, neutrons, neutrinos, photons and others
An atom that does not have a neutral charge is called an ion. It has an unequal number of protons and electrons.
Nonmetallic atoms have Neutral charge not a Negative charge.
because it normally does not have a electric charge If an atom has equal numbers of protons and electrons, it is electrically neutral.
Atoms have NO electric charge, only ions have (+ or -)
neutral
Atoms either gain or lose electrons to change their overall neutral charge.
They are neutral.
No, atoms are neutral
Zero. (Ions have charge; atoms are always neutral.)