If all the atoms didn’t need to gain or lose electrons, there would be no chemistry, which means no molecules, no compounds, no non-gas substances, and no life.

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You would become plasma as there are no electrons to form molecules. You wouldn’t exist unless you were plasma. Meaning you would die. Nothing other than plasma would exist in such a universe.

If chemical bonds didn’t exist, which statement would be true? Life would not exist. Substances would be limited to the elements in the periodic table. Energy would not exist.

Originally Answered: What happens if you remove all the electrons from an atom? We have successfully ionized atoms by stripping them of their electrons. It would have a positive charge, of course, equal to how many were lost. Nitrogen losing 3 electrons has 7 protons, 4 electrons; thus, a +3 charge.

Valence electrons are the electrons orbiting the nucleus in the outermost atomic shell of an atom. Electrons that are closer to the nucleus are in filled orbitals and are called core electrons. Removing an electron (any of them) from a neutral atom turns the atom into an ion.

1 Answer. Hydrogen can lose an electron meaning it can be in the +1 oxidation state. However, just like any other cation or anion it never occurs free in condensed matter, it always is in contact with solvent and/or anions. Moreover, because of extremely small size of proton, it is an extremely powerful Lewis acid.

The only two ways by which atoms lose protons is through radioactive decay and nuclear fission. Both processes will only occur in atoms that have unstable nuclei. It is well known that radioactively occurs naturally and spontaneously.

Atoms can have an electrical charge, positive or negative. This happens when an atom gains or loses electrons. The number of protons never changes in an atom. More electrons means a negative charge and fewer means a positive charge.

Adding or removing protons from the nucleus changes the charge of the nucleus and changes that atom’s atomic number. So, adding or removing protons from the nucleus changes what element that atom is! (Actually, a few neutrons have to be added as well to make the new nucleus stable, but the end result is still helium.)

When you remove or add a neutron to the nucleus of an atom, the resulting substance is a new type of the same element and is called an isotope. It does, however, change the mass of the nucleus. …

The nucleus makes up a tiny proportion of the space occupied by an atom, while the electrons make up the rest. According to quantum electrodynamics, the space is filled by an electron field around the nucleus which neutralizes its charge and fills the space defining the atom size.

Space is not empty. A point in outer space is filled with gas, dust, a wind of charged particles from the stars, light from stars, cosmic rays, radiation left over from the Big Bang, gravity, electric and magnetic fields, and neutrinos from nuclear reactions.

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