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For an atom to become positively charged, it must lose electrons.

However, oxygen is a non-metal and is an anion. Since it only needs one electron to complete its outer shell of valence electrons, it tends to gain electrons rather than lose them and forms covalent bonds (where electrons are shared).

Outside of some circumstances

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