How do you find number of electrons for #Ca^+#?

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anor277
Jul 31, 2016

For #Ca# metal, #Z,"the atomic number"=20#.......

Explanation:

If #Z=20#, by definition, there are #20# massive, positively charged particles in the calcium nucleus. In the NEUTRAL atom, there must be an equal number of fundamental, negatively-charged particles to balance the positive charge, and these we call electrons.

And thus in a #Ca^+# atom there are necessarily 19 electrons to account for the charge. How many electrons associated with #Ca^(2+)#?

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