Question

An atom X that has 12 protons and 12 electrons, loses two electrons to form an ion.
What will be the charge on the ion? What will be the number of protons and electrons in
the ion?

Answer 1

Answer:

10 electrons 12 protons

charge on ion:+2

Answer 2

Answer:

Electrons are negatively charged, whereas, protons are positively charged.An atom is electrically neutral because it has equalnumber of protons and electrons.An atom can lose, gain or share its electrons. An ion is a charged particle formed from an atom by the loss or gain of electrons.

Since atom X loses 2 electrons, ion X will acquire positive charge i.e. +2.

Now the total no. of electrons will be 10 and number of protons remains same.