How to determine the charge of the ion?

Chemistry - Science Interesting and not very simple, so often students and even adult people have different kinds of questions. Let's talk today about how to determine the charge of the ion.

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Charge instruction

For those who do not know, molecules, like atoms, lose their electrons, or acquire them. It is this process for changing the "reconstruction" of atoms and molecules is the process of forming an ion. The ion is called a particle that can consist of one or more atoms, and this particle is charged. So, in order to determine the charge of the ion, you will need only one component, namely the Mendeleev table:

• The atom has two components - the kernel and the electronic type sheath, while the first component of the atom also consists of two components, namely from protons and neutrons. As for the charge of neurons, in this case such a value is zero, because they do not have an electric type charge. Protons are positive particles, then their charge will be equal to "+1".
• The electronic type shell also has its own components, namely, orbitals, which, in turn, also consist of a certain amount of electrons (the system is not simple as you could notice). Electron is a particle that is charged negatively, which means that negatively, it turns out that its charge is "-1".
• If the atom is a neutral particle, then the number of protons in this situation will be equal to the number of electrons, and therefore the amount is also zero.

To determine the charge of ion, you need to know a little, namely, what it consists of, that is, its design. It turns out that the values \u200b\u200bthat will be needed to calculate the parameter we need is the number of protons and electrons (only the first are in the kernel, but the second is on electronic-type orbital).

Ultimately, we obtain a completely simple formula for calculating the charge of ion - we summarize the number of electrons and protons that are part of the ion itself. It should not be thought that these values \u200b\u200bmay be extremely the same, often it often happens that the number of protons is less than the amount of electrons, so it is worth considering this fact when calculating the charge. In this case, such an ion is considered negative, in the opposite case, the opposite is positive (when protons are less than electrons in ion).

The next step is to determine the nuclear number that is easy to determine if you know the chemically element itself, and in front of you lies the table of the Great Mendeleev.

It is worth noting that this charge calculation is not the only one, because there are also other methods for determining this value, but the above - the most simple and most often used in practice.