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An anion is anything with a positive charge. So an atomic anion must be a positively charged atom. Atoms can only gain or lose electrons, which are negatively charged. By losing one or more negative charges, which is to say electrons, an atom becomes positively charged since the protons in its nucleus are no longer balanced by the lost electrons.

So overall, an atomic anion is an atom that has given up one or more electrons.

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