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All the Group16 elements on the Periodic Table will tend to form an ion with a -2 charge. That's because all the Group 16 elements (oxygen, sulfur, selenium, tellerium and polonium are two electrons short of having a full valence shell. These atoms will try to borrow two electrons to fill their out shells, and will form -2 ions when they have been formed into ionic compounds and then dissociated into into ions.

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