chemistry question?

Question

if lithium were to gain or loose electrons, what charge would form on the atom? ahd how did u find the answer?

Answer 1

When anything gains an electron, it becomes negative.
the loss of an electron leads to the atom in this case lithium to be postive.

in reference to first answer- more protons than electrons gives it a positive charge- not NEUTRONS. neutrons have no charge but a mass equal to a proton.

Answer 2

Lithium would take on a +1 charge by losing one electron. It has one electron in its valence shell (you know this because it is in the first column), so if it loses that one electron it drops down to the next shell, which is a complete shell, making the atom stable, which is what atoms want to be. To find the answer for any element, look at its column in the table. The column number (exclude the transition elements, which all have 2 valence electrons in the ground state) indicates the number of electrons in the valence level. To find the ionic #, count how many squares away from the right or left it is, and that is the number of the charge. To move to the left to get to the noble gas state, it is a positive charge, and to move to the right it is a negative charge.

Answer 3

Lithium loses one electron in chemical reactions to form Li+. It never gains electrons, but if it gained one, it would be Li-.

Answer 4

ok lithium is a group1 element so it needs to lose an electron to become happy as your could sayso when it lose that electron it will have more protons then neutrons making the charge +1...vote me best answer plz

Answer 5

gain electrons means negitave charge and lose is positave.

lithium ions are allways +1 charge. so they are neutral charge or +1 if its ionized.