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It's charge is 2-.
You could find it out using the Periodic Table by looking at the columns (doesn't work with Transition elements, Lanthinide and Actinides) and for the first four coloumns, up to Carbon's column, the charge starts at 1+ and goes up by one for each column.
For the next 4 columns, it starts at 3- and goes up in charge by one each column
(until 0 for the halogens)
Also if you think about it, water is H2O and hydrogens charge is 1+ which, because all stable compounds have an overall charge of 0, you have one oxygen and 2 hydrogens and the charge of both hydrogens together is 2+ and therefore oxygen is 2-.
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because O-17 is an isotope of oxygen. but the atomic number of an isotope is the same as the original atom and the atomic number tells the number of protons. since Oxygen has an atomic number of 8, the charge of the nucleus would also be 8+
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∙ 11y agoThere are eight electrons in the cloud around the nucleus. We don't see electron clouds without the nucleus. The oxygen electron cloud has a total charge of eight times -1 = -8 and the nucleus has eight protons each with charge +1 = +8. So the total charge of an oxygen atom is -8+8 = 0: it's electrically neutral.
That's not the whole answer however. It depends on where you are. You see different charges from different distances. Far away the charges of the electrons and protons balance out and we see no charge. As you get close though, one side of the electron cloud is much closer to you than the nucleus so that the charge from the two closest electrons is not completely balanced by the positively charged but farther away protons. We sense charges by the force they exert. The rule for electric force is it is the sum of the products of the charges divided by the square of the distance to the charge. So far away charges have much less effect than closer ones. When we are close to or in the electron cloud we detect mostly negative charge somewhere between 0 and -2 times that of an electron.
In oxygen, all directions are not the same. In two directions from the nucleus we feel the local negative charge sooner than in the remaining direction. These earlier charges are an effect of the valence electrons. It is why when hydrogen (1 electron) binds to oxygen, it chooses the direction not occupied by valence electrons to make the hydrogen bond.
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∙ 11y agoOxygen has an atomic number of 8. That means there are 8 positively charged protons in the nucleus of an oxygen atom.
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∙ 9y agoThis is a chemical element. You can find the how many electron in a single atom by using a periodic table.
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∙ 6y agoOxygen has 8 electrons.
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What is the charge of just the nucleus of an atom?
The nucleus of an atom carries a positive charge. The negatively charged electrons orbiting the nucleus more or less balances out the positive charge.
A subatomic particles that has a positive charge and tha is located in the nucleus of an atom.?
Proton has positive charge and is in nucleus of an atom. Neutron has zero charge and is also found in nucleus of an atom. Electron has negative charge and is found in cloud around the nucleus (electron cloud).
What particles are at the center of an atom?
Atoms contain three different sub-atomic particles. Protons, which are particles with a positive charge, and neutrons, particles with a neutral charge are found in the nucleus at the center of the atom. Surrounding the nucleus are electrons, particles that have negative charge.
What is the central core of an atom?
The center of an atom is called the nucleus.
What has a negative charge and is inside the nucleus of an atom?
Nothing. The only part of an atom with negative charge are the electrons.
Is the charge of a nucleus positive negative or zero The charge of an atom?
nucleus has a positive charge. net charge of an atom (not an ion!) is 0.
What is the the charge in the nucleus of an atom?
The nucleus of an atom contains neutrons which have no charge and protons which are positively charged, hence the overall charge on the nucleus is always positive.
What charge does the nucleus of an atom hold?
The charge of any Nucleus is Neutral.
What particle of an atom is not electrically charge?
The neutron - found in the nucleus of the atom. Protons (in the nucleus) have a positive charge, electrons (orbiting the nucleus) have a negative charge.
What the charge of the nucleus of an atom?
The nucleus is the positively charged central mass of an atom.
What is the charge of just the nucleus of an atom?
The nucleus of an atom carries a positive charge. The negatively charged electrons orbiting the nucleus more or less balances out the positive charge.
Which part of the atom is found in the center of the atom and has no electric charge?
A neutron has no electrical charge and is found in the nucleus of an atom.Alternate wording to an inexact question:If you are referring to the nucleus of an atom, there must always be at least one proton. So there has to always be a positive charge. The other component, the neutron, has no charge. The electrons orbiting the nucleus have the negative charge. So if no electrical charge is found in the nucleus, it is not an atom and therefore not a nucleus.
What is the small core at the center of an atom containing positive charge?
Nucleus, made up of protons and nuetrons. The nucleus. If an atom has positive charge it means one or more electrons has gone missing, leaving a net positive charge due to protons in the nucleus.
in an atom the particle with no charge is what?
neutran
What is the charge on the nucleus of an atom?
Negative.
What charge does the nucleus of an atom have?
positive
What is the charge of the nucleus of an atom and?
The positive charge of the atomic nucleus is given by the number of protons.
