This may be a little challenging if you don't have a solid understanding of chemistry, but basically here is why: sodium chloride (NaCl) is the salt in salt water (water being H2O) When salt dissolves in water it actually breaks into it's most stable ion form Na+ and Cl-. It also should be understood that H2O (water) is in fact H+ and OH- ions, which is a more stable form of liquid water. The reason atoms tend go to an electrically stable state has to do with quantum chemistry. Basically sodium atoms have an extra electron they freely give up to the water solution, while chlorine atoms capture and use that extra electron to stabilize their electrical energy state. Salty water in effect is a solution of sodium, chlorine, hydrogen and hydroxide ions, with electrons going from one atom/molecule to another. This is why salty water is a good conductor of electricity (lots of free electrons to move around).
I think it is a positive charge!!
Sodium will be positive. Check your periodic table; all those elements on the left will always be positive ions.
because chloride ions being negatively charged have got a tendency to get attracted to positive ions( follows from coloumbs law) and since positive electrode contains positive ions so chloride free ions in solution gets attracted to the positive electrode....
Nitrogen typically forms negative ions, such as nitride (N3-) ions, by gaining three electrons to achieve a stable electron configuration.
The positive calcium ions in calcium chloride are attracted to the negative oxygen atom in the water molecule, while the negative chloride ions are attracted to the positive hydrogen atoms in the water molecule.
You can have positive ions and negative ions. For example, take saltwater which dissociates into: Na+ & Cl- Typically the number positive charges and negative charges must balance.
Ionic compounds are neutral because, even though they consist of positive and negative ions, the relative proportions between those ions are such that the total number of negative charges is the same as the total number of positive charges, thus summing to zero.
positive ions carry positive charge and negative ions carry negative charge
Ions can have either a positive or a negative charge.
Negative ions go to a positive electrode.
negative
Electrons consists of negative ions.
These are ions: positive (cations) and negative (anions).
Positive and negative ions can be found in both organic and inorganic chemistry.
Positive ions are called cations, and negative ions are called anions. Cations have a net positive charge because they have lost electrons, while anions have a net negative charge because they have gained electrons.
That's correct! When atoms gain or lose electrons, they become ions with an overall positive or negative charge. Positive ions are called cations, and negative ions are called anions.
Ionic bonds form between positive and negative ions.