What a neutral substance called?

Question

A negetively charged substance is called the anion while a positively charged substance is called the cation, but what a neutral substance called?

Does it has any specific name?

Answer 1

An inert element would be one example.

Actually, any atom that has not gained or lost an electron will be neutral as well.

Answer 2

In physics, a real neutral particle is a particle that is its own antiparticle. Examples are the photon, the Z boson, the neutral pion, the hypothetical Higgs boson, and the hypothetical neutralino.

The electromagnetic charge, weak charge, and strong charge of such a particle must be the same as that of its antiparticle. In the case of the electromagnetic and strong charges, this implies that the charge must be zero.

For a spin-1/2 particle such as the (hypothetical) neutralino, being a real neutral particle means being a Majorana fermion.

Ionochromic materials, similar to photochromic, thermochromic and other chromic materials, alter colour in the presence of a factor and reverse back to their initial state when the factor is removed. The factor which causes colour change in ionochromic substances are ions. Ions are electrically charged atoms. A positive ion (cation) has an excess of protons over electrons which is the reason for its positive charge. Negative ions (anions) have gained electrons from their neutral state and therefore have a negative charge. A flow of charged atoms/ions through an ionochromic material results in a reaction/colour change from the material. This material is in many ways similar to electrochromic materials which change colour when electrons flow through them. Electrons, just like anions, carry a negative charge. Both electrochromic and ionochromic substances have their colour change activated by the flow of charged particles. Ionochromic substances are suitable for detection of charged particles. Some ionochromic substances can be used as indicators for complexometric titrations

A counter ion is an ion, the presence of which allows the formation of an overall neutrally charged species. For example, in the (neutral) species NaCl the sodium ion is countered by the chloride ion and vice versa. In most situations in chemistry, an ion has a counter ion, exceptions being in ion beams, mass spectrometry and situations where electrons counter the charge of the ion (e.g. the Na/NH3 system, and plasmas).

Answer 3

huh....think i learned something reading these answers.

Sticking the the realm of gen chem only. I'd say the intert is right.
Usually these terms are used because of a compound....(drank a bit, hard to get my words out right).

NaCl for instance. We call Na the cation and Cl the anion. They come together to maek NaCl.

Inerts though don't react (the noble gasses).

Anywyas, point being, we don't really need to use the word to describe neutral atoms because there is no point. It has no purpose in our reaction

Answer 4

Your answer is spectator ion because spectator ion does nothing. It is just in the solution doing nothing.