Question

Sodium will ____________ electrons to go from neutral to Na+1. Sodium, Na, has ____________ (number) total electrons, while the sodium ion, Na+1, has ____________ (number) total electrons.

Answer 1

Answer:

1. Lose

2. 11

3. 10

Explanation:

When an ion is formed it either loses or gains an electron in this case since the ion is positive it means it has lose an electron, since electrons provide a negative charge. So since it goes from Na to Na+1 it has lost an electron.

The number of electrons is based off of the number of protons/ the atomic number of the element. Sodiums atomic number is 1 1 and since it lost and electron it would go down to 10.