Net Charge

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• What determines if an atom is electrically charged or electrically neutral?
• What is the law of conservation of electric charge?
• Can a polarized object have a net charge of zero?
• What is the SI unit of electric charge?
• What is the elementary charge?
• What does it mean that the electric charge is quantized?
• Why is the electric charge a fundamental conserved property?
• How does pH affect net charge?
• How can I find the net charge of a molecule?
• How can I calculate the net charge of an ion?
• What are some common mistakes students make with the net electric charge?
• What are some examples of net charges?
• What is the net electric charge?
• Question #26e09
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• Question #4c3aa
• What is the net charge of a helium atom?
• Question #2729e
• Question #67733
• What is the charge of the ion that a magnesium atom will usually form?
• How are ions made from neutral atoms?
• If an atom loses electrons, will it have an overall charge?
• Question #8fb98
• How can you describe the electron charge of an ionic compound?
• If an atom loses two electrons, what is its charge?
• Question #4ef6e
• How does a Sulfur -2 ion differ from a neutral Sulfur atom?
• An anion with a net -2 charge has a total of 36 electrons. What element is the anion derived from?
• What is the charge that results when oxygen becomes an ion?
• What charge does the electron cloud?
• Why is a neutral atom considered to have no charge?
• What is the ion notation for an atom with 34 protons and 36 electrons?
• How many electrons are lost or gained in forming each #Ba^(2+)#?
• Question #42e41
• What is the overall charge of a neutral atom?
• Question #dbb08
• After a neutral sulfur atom gains two electrons, what is the resulting charge of the ion?
• An atom has 25 protons, 30 neutrons, and 25 electrons. What ls the charge of the atom's nucleus?
• What is the net charge of an ion that has 8 protons, 9 neutrons, and 10 electrons?
• What kind of a charge does an object that has an excess of electrons have?
• What is the net charge of the ionic compound calcium fluoride?
• What is the net charge of the ionic compound, rubidium sulfide?
• What is the charge of a particle having 12 protons and 10 electrons?
• What is the difference between the representations #Mg# and #Mg^(2+)#?
• Why does magnesium for #Mg^(2+)# cations and not #Mg^(6-)# anions?
• What is the ionic charge of an ion with 18 protons and 15 electrons?
• What is normally the net charge of a polarized object?
• Two valence electrons occupy the outer energy level of the element strontium. If strontium forms an ion, what will be its likely charge?
• How do you write the ion notation for an atom with 20 protons and 18 electrons?
• A gas has a volume of .590 L at a temperature of -55.0°C. What volume will the gas occupy at 30.0°C?
• If an element gains an electron, will it form a positive ion or a negative ion?
• Why does an anion have a negative charges?
• What is the charge on the complex ion in #Ca_2[Fe(CN)_6]#?
• What is the name of the ion: #Sn^(4+)#?
• Which of these has nonzero orientation polarization? #"NH"_3#, #"BF"_3#
• Question #0bebd
• What is the difference between an ion and an atom?
• What is the conventional ion notation? For example, how which of the following is correct?
• Why do you calculate formal charge?
• How do you calculate the formal charge on atoms of an ion?
• How do you calculate formal charge from a lewis structure?
• How do you calculate formal charge of a compound?
• How do you calculate formal charge of a molecule?
• How do you calculate formal charge of an ion?
• How do you calculate formal charge of CO?
• How do you calculate the formal charge of #CO_2#?
• How do you calculate the formal charge of #NH_3#?
• What is the formula for calculating formal charge?
• What is the overall charge on a molecule of water?
• Why do negative charges attract?
• If an atom has six protons and four neutrons, what is its charge?
• A nitride ion has 7 protons, 8 neutrons, and 10 electrons. What is the overall charge on this ion?
• What are the charge numbers for the cation and the anion in lead(II) sulfate?
• If a lithium atom loses one electron, what will its charge be?
• How many neutrons are there in a single #Fe^(2+)# atom?
• Question #70106
• What is the electrical charge of a cation?
• What happens when an atom loses an electron?
• What is the charge of #CH_2O#?
• How would you calculate the formal charge of each atom in the following compounds: #NO#, #AlH_4^-# ?
• How do you determine formal charge?
• What is formal charge? How is it found?
• What is the formal charge of the central atom in #O_3#?
• What is the formal charge on the oxygen atom in #N_2O#?
• What is the formal charge on the phosphate ion in #PO_3^-#?
• How does #SO_4# have a charge of 2-?
• What is the formal charge on the sulfur atom in sulfur trioxide #SO_3#?
• Is the formal charge of #Br# in Bromate (#BrO_3^-#) +2?
• Draw the best Lewis structure for #Cl_3^-#. What is the formal charge on the central #Cl# atom?
• Draw the best Lewis structure for #CH_3^-1#. What is the formal charge on the #C#?
• What is the formal charge for the Phosphate Ion?
• What is the formal charge of the following molecules: #HNO_2#, #HCl#, #CO_2#, #NaCl#, #SO_3#?
• What is the Lewis structure for resonance form of #ClO_2^-#?
• What is the formal charge formula?
• How do you calculate formal charge of an atom?
• How do you calculate formal charge from an equation?
• How do you use the formal charge calculation?
• A compound composed of 2.1% H, 29.8% N, and 68.1% O has a molar mass of approximately 50 g/mol. What is the formal charge of the nitrogen?
• What is the Lewis Dot Structure for #BrO_2^-# and what are the formal charges on each atom?
• What is the formal charge of carbon atom in the lewis structure of carbonyl sulfide (#OCS#)?
• From a consideration of the Lewis structure of the thiocyanate ion, SCN–, in which carbon has a double bond with both the sulfur and nitrogen atoms, what are the formal charges on the sulfur, carbon, and nitrogen atoms?
• Based on formal charges, what is the best Lewis structure for #ClO_3^-#?
• An atom has 10 electrons, 12 neutrons, and no net charge. What element is this atom, and what are its atomic number and mass?
• How would #Mg# change to gain a noble gas structure?
• Question #6f4d0
• What charge does the barium ion possess in the compound #BaCl_2#?
• How does a sodium form an ion?
• How would you determine the formal charges on each atom in the carbonate ion (#CO_3^(2-)#)?
• What would the charge be on an ion of boron be?
• When chlorine becomes the chloride ion, what is its charge?
• Particles having a net negative charge are called what?
• Two electrically neutral materials are rubbed together. One acquires a net positive charge. What happens to the other?
• If an atom of sodium forms an ion, what will its charge be?
• If an atom of chlorine forms an ion, what will its charge be?
• Why are cations smaller and anions larger in radii than their parent atom?
• How many electrons would have to be removed from a coin to leave it with a charge of #+1.6 xx 10^-7# C?
• A lithium atom has positively charged protons and negatively charged electrons. The sum of the charges represents the charge of the lithium atom. How do you find the charge of the atom?
• What is the difference between a cation and an anion?
• Question #42299
• What is the name of the cation in each of the following compounds?
• Question #71df7
• What is the overall charge of the electron cloud of an atom? Why?
• What are some properties of electrical charges in chemistry?
• How do conservation of mass and conservation of charge apply in an acid-base reaction....?
• How many positive charge does beryllium have?
• An atom loses electrons to form what?
• How does chlorine gas give #Cl^(-)# and #ClO_3^(-)# upon basic hydrolysis?
• What is an atom called when it has no charge?
• How do you calculate the formal charge on each atom in #O_3#?
• Is an ion an atom that has a net positive or negative electric charge?
• The net charge on a sulfide ion, #"S"^(2-)#, is #2-#. How does this ion obtain its charge?
• What is the effective nuclear charge in hydrogen atom?
• Why do atoms have no overall electrical charge?
• Is #NaF# neutral?
• What is the charge of oxygen gas?
• What is a negative ion is known as?
• How is net charge found?
• What is an atom (or group of atoms) that has an electric charge other than zero, and is created when an atom or group of atoms) gains or loses electrons?
• A classmate claims that sodium gains a positive charge when it becomes an ion because it gains a proton. What is wrong with the student's claim?
• How would you describe the distribution of charge in an atom?
• What are three elements that form only one cation?
• Sodium is much more apt to exist as a positive ion than is chlorine. Why does this occur?
• Question #03a79
• What charge does calcium, Ca, have when it becomes an ion?
• An atom has 35 protons, 38 neutrons, and 35 electrons. What is the charge of the atom's nucleus?
• What determines the polarizing ability of a cation?
• Question #d996c
• How does a positive ion form?
• Question #f0510
• What is the charge on the iron cations in iron(II) chloride and iron (III) chloride, respectively?
• What a positive ion plus a negative ion?
• How do you determine whether a element is not isoelectronic with another element?
• Which of the following make an isoelectronic pair: #Cl^-#, #O^(2-)#, #F#, #Ca^(2+)#, #Fe^(3+)#?
• What is the ion notation for Calcium that lost 2 electrons?
• What is the ion notation for an atom with 8 protons and 10 electrons?
• Question #9d66c
• Which of the following cations is least likely to form: #Sr^(2+)#, #Al^(3+)#, #K^(2+)#? Why?
• What ion will be formed by the selenium atom shown below when it has a stable set of valence electrons?
• How does a antimony-122 atom become a antimony -122 ion with a #3^-# charge?
• How does a barium atom become a barium ion with a #2^+# charge?
• What are the charges of oxide, and fluoride anions?
• Where does the positive charge come from on an atom?
• How many electrons in the neutral #""^40Ca# isotope?
• Why can plastic become charged if you rub it, but not metal?
• Explain the basic properties of electrical charge?
• Question #6b789
• What process would give a neutral oxygen atom a -2 charge?
• In magnesium chloride, what balances the 2+ charge of the magnesium ion?
• Which of the following does not describe an ion: positive, negative, or neutral?
• What kind of ion is formed by barium?
• Question #b0687
• Are atoms that gain electrons positively or negatively charged?
• What are the charges of two ions of copper?
• How many electrons does #Al^(3+)# have?
• Question #96fc8
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• Question #0fc37
• How do we formulate #"lithium nitride"#?
• Question #c0190
• Particles with opposite charges do what to each other?
• What is the charge on the anion in #AlPO_4#?
• A certain element forms an ion with 18 electrons and a charge of +2. What is the element?
• What is meant by "charge imbalance?"
• Can the number of nuclear protons change in a chemical reaction? What charged particles are contained in a #"sulfur atom"#, and a #"sulfide ion"#?
• What is the name of the element whose atomic number is 73?
• Question #47128
• X and Z are two neutral particles. If X donates an electron to Z what is the resulting charge of the two particles?
• What materials do they use for the anode and cathodes of Iithium ion batteries?
• Is ammonium ion a radical?
• Question #a91f7
• What is the net ionic equation of #2H^+ + SO_4^(2-) + Ca^(2+) + 2I^- -> CaSO_4 + 2H^+ + 2I^-#?
• Question #0d3b4
• What is the electric charge possessed by 10 electrons?
• Question #8fcec
• What is the net charge of the ionic compound calcium fluoride?
• Is calcium cation a hard acid or soft acid?
• Question #be740
• Question #57db5
• What is an #"anion"#?
• Could we find an element that has different numbers of electronic and nuclear charges...?
• Question #cb24f
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• Question #2dc52
• What allows the formation of a positive ion?
• Question #84694
• Question #dc63c
• Question #f1fb8
• Which has a stronger polarising force #Li^+# or #Be^(2+)#?
• How many protons in ammonium ion...?
• How does a formula unit compare to a crystal lattice for an ionic compound?
• Question #54872
• What does sodium forms an ion with a charge of?
• Question #f0888
• If an atom gains an electron, what charge will it become as an ion?
• Question #2864b
• What is the charge on the chromium ion in the ionic compound that has the formula #Cr_2O_3#?
• What net charge will an atom that loses one electron have?
• Determine which of the following ions is the hardest acid? #"Cs"^(+)#, #"Ca"^(2+)#, #"Ba"^(2+)#, #"Li"^(+)#
• Question #1c374
• Question #b38cb
• How does the number of electrons relate to the charge of the ion for a given atomic number?
• Does all matter contain the same NUMBER of electrons as PROTONS?
• Question #64e44
• Question #09d7f
• Does the sulfur atom have the same number of electrons as the sulfide ion?
• Is this a typo in my textbook? [See the image attached]
• What results when a species is OXIDIZED?
• What is the electronic configuration of sodium ion?
• Question #6b48e
• Why does chromium form a #"Cr"^(2+)# ion?
• Question #7701f
• What charge would be associated with an iron atom that had 37 electrons?
• Question #5e7c5
• How is nitrogen-14 an anion?
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