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When an Atom Loses an electron (Negative (-) particle), it then contains One more proton than electrons and becomes a Positive (+) particle or An 'Ion' and, in this case will have a Positive Charge (+).It gets this way when it reacts with another atom like Chlorine which gains an electron to become a Negative (-) 'Ion'.Example: Sodium, Na, becomes Na(1+) Ion by losing an electron.Chlorine, Cl, becomes Cl(1-) Ion by gaining an electron.The 2 Ions will chemically combine to form a Neutral (no charge) compound of Salt, NaCl.
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What happens to an atom when it looses an electron?
If an atom loses an electron, its charge becomes a positive. (The process of losing an electron is called OXIDATION, by the way.) Depending on the electron configuration, the atom could become "happy" (because its outer ring is now empty) or it could want to bond with another atom to fill ALL of the spots on its outer electron ring.
The positively charged subatomic particle that remains when a hydrogen atom loses an electron is called?
A proton
What is the loss or gain of an electron?
electrons... and thus one unit of negative charge....
What is fomed when one atom takes an electron from another atom?
When electrons move from one atom to another, they change the charge of the atoms. If you remove one electron that atom becomes 1+ charged because a negative was taken away, making it more positive than negative. The atom that recieves an electron becomes 1- charged because you added a negative, making the atom more negative than positive.
How are ions formed from atoms?
Ions are the formation of unbalanced atoms due to an attraction caused by a near completion of an electron ring in one atom and extra or valence electrons in the outer ring of another. If an atom gains an extra electron its over all charge is negative and the opposite is true for the atom gaining an electron.
What happens to an atom when it looses and electron?
When an atom loses an electron, it becomes a cation and has a positive charge.
What do you think happens to the size of the electron when it loses and electron?
The ATOM decreases in size when it loses an electron and increases when electrons are added.
What happens if atom loses electron?
When an atom loses electrons it becomes ionized and more positive a charge. Losing an electron can cause this atom to react with other atoms.
What happens when an loses an electron?
When an atom loses an electron it becomes a positively charged ion (cation). it becomes a positive ion
What happens when an atom loses an electron form its outermost shell?
It becomes a positive ion, and also connects with the atom that stoles its electron.
What happens to a hydrogen atom to make it become a H plus?
It loses an electron
'When an atom loses an electron what does it become?
When an atom loses an electron, it becomes a positively charged ion.
What happens when an atom loses an electron in its outer most shell?
it becomes a positive ion
What happens when a sodium atom loses an electron in its outer energy?
It becomes a positive ion.
What happens when an atom loses a electron from its outermost shell?
It becomes possitively charged.It is oxidized.
When atom loses energy what happens to electron?
when an atom loses an energy , it loses a electron, so what exactly happens to an electron. when you are looking at the periodic tabel they are numbered in groups called group family 1-18 .for an example for what happens to an atom when it losses an electron .when a electron has a nuber lower that 4 it wants to reach at 0 electrtons and when a atom has higher than 6 elctrons it wants to reach at 8 elcrtons . when a atom losses a electron it gives it to another atom that has lower than 4 electrons who is trying to reach at 8
When a atom loses a electron What is the atoms charge?
When an atom loses an electron it becomes a positively charged ion.
