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Metals can form ions carrying charges:​

Answer 1

Metals can form ion carrying charges.

$\implies$ TRUE STATEMENT.

Reason:

• Usually metals lose one or more electrons and form cations. This helps them to attain noble-gas configuration and get stability.

• These cations have positive charge due to lack of electrons and can acts as charge carriers (electrolytes) in solutions.

For example:

$\boxed{\sf{Mg \longrightarrow {Mg}^{2+} + {2e}^{-}}}$

Here magnesium loses two electrons to form are divalent cation and can carry charge in a solution.

Hence the statement is true.

Answer 2

Metal form ions carrying positive charges.

• Metals usually form positively charged cations having a +2 charge.  

• Transition metals can make more than one form of cation.  

• Halogens make an anion with a sole negative charge.  

• Group 16 elements usually form anions with two negative charges, while group fifteen elements often make -3 charge anions.

• Transition metal atoms are fairly good at giving up electrons, and so they can make positively charged cations

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