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What happens when an atom looses electron?
If the atom loses electrons, the atom becomes positively charged because the number of positively charged protons.
What must happen in order for an ion to form?
An ion forms when an atom gains or loses electrons to have a stable electron configuration. When an atom gains electrons, it forms a negatively charged ion (anion), and when it loses electrons, it forms a positively charged ion (cation).
When does an atom become an ion with a charge of 2 plus?
Barium has two electrons in its outermost shell, electrons carrying a negative charge. When the Barium atom becomes an ion, these two electrons are lost. Now the Barium atom has more protons than electrons, meaning a net positive charge of 2.
How can a neutral atom become a positively changed particle?
A neutral atom becomes a positive atom by losing an electron.
What kind of bond is formed when one atom looses electrons and the other gains electrons?
Ionic bond is formed when one atom loses electrons (cation) and another gains electrons (anion). This results in an electrostatic attraction between the oppositely charged ions, creating a strong bond between them.
How ions form.?
Ions are formed when an atom gains or loses electrons and gets charged. If an atom gains electrons, number of electrons exceed from the number of proton and hence an atom gets negatively charged. Similarly if an atom looses electrons the total number of protons become more than the number of electrons.. and the atom becomes positively charged.
How many protons does an atom have if it looses 2 electrons?
The same number of protons.
When an ion is created the number of these is changed in the atom?
electrons. the atom either gains or looses electrons to become negatively or positively charged. An ion can also be formed by the addition or subtraction of a neutron.
What happens when atom looses electron?
If an atom loosed electrons then it becomes an ion. The electrical charge in the atom becomes a positive ion.
What forms when an atom has lost or gained electrons?
When an atom looses an electron is called "a cation, when gains is called an "anion".
What form when atoms lose or gain electrons and become positively or negatively charged?
If you are asking what it is called, when an atom looses or gains electrons it is called an ion. Electrons are negative, so when an atom looses electrons it becomes more positive and is called an cation. So, when an atom gains electrons it becomes more negative and is called an anion.
When a metal atom looses there valence electrons do they form a atomic bond?
covalent bonds
When a atom gain or looses a valence electron it become a charged particle called an?
When an atom gains or looses a valence electron it becomes a charged particle called an ion
What happens when an atom looses electron?
If the atom loses electrons, the atom becomes positively charged because the number of positively charged protons.
How does an atom becone an ion?
An atom looses or gains electron to become ion. Ions are +ve and -ve atoms.
When an atom gains or looses electrons what to the charge of atom?
When an atom gains electrons, it becomes negatively charged because it now has more electrons than protons. When an atom loses electrons, it becomes positively charged because it now has more protons than electrons.
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.
