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Difference between Sodium atom and sodium ion

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Answered by hharasudhan539
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Sodium atom is neutral whereas sodium ion is a charged specie with a charge of +1.The number of protons and electrons in sodium atom is same i.e 11 whereas the number of protons in sodium ion (11) is more than number of electrons (10).The size of sodium ion is smaller than sodium atom.


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Answered by Apriyadarshani123
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Sodium atom is neutral charged. But the ion is positively charged as it has donated an electron to any other atoto form a neutral molecule.

The sodium atom is denoted as Na

& sodium ion is denoted as Na+

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