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Atoms of metallic element tend to?
Ductile Malleable have Luster lose electrons when make ionic compounds
Do atoms of metallic elements tend to gain or lose electrons?
Metals usually lose electrons, this is why many charges are positive.
Why are metals metals?
Metallic elements tend to have similar physical characteristics; they are ductile, malleable, electrically and thermally conductive, solid at room temperature (except mercury) and have very high melting points. In their atomic configuration, they have to lose electrons to become ionized. Since they lose electrons, they have a positive charge. They will not react with another element that has to lose electrons to become ionized.
How can you tell from an element's number of valence elns whether the element is more likely to form a caor an anion?
If an element has less than four valence electrons, it will tend to lose its valence electrons and form cations. If an element has more than four valence electrons, it will tend to gain electrons and form anions. An element that has four valence electrons will tend to form covalent bonds rather than ionic bonds.
Is lead a molecular or ionic compound?
The element does not form either but instead a metallic solid, metal particles attracted by metallic bonds. Because metals tend to let go of their electrons easily a metallic solid at the same time transfers and shares electrons very loosely in a metallic solid, in a "sea of electrons."
In orde rto be like noble gas an element can change which subatomic particle?
An element can either gain or lose electrons to achieve a noble gas electron configuration. Such an electron configuration gives an atom of an element a full outer shell, thereby making that element's ion nonreactive. Metals tend to lose electrons, and become cations, whereas nonmetals tend to gain electrons, and become anions. The amount of electrons an element gains of loses is based on the group/family the element is found in on the Periodic Table.
Do alkali metals tend to gain or lose electrons?
Alkali metals tend to lose electrons in chemical reactions.
Does fluorine tend to lose electrons?
Fluorine is a nonmetal. It is located in group 17 of the periodic table. It tends to obtain an electron to form the fluoride ion.Fluorine is the element with highest electronegativity. So it does not tend to lose electrons. It is in the 17th group of the periodic table.
Why do metals tend to lose electrons to form positive?
Metals tend to lose electrons to form positive ions because, for metals to gain a full outer shell, they need to lose electrons.
Atoms of metals do what with electrons to become stable while atoms nonmetals tend to do what to electrons to become stable?
Choices: a) eject, retain B) lose, gain c) retain,gain d) gain, lose e) lose, retain
Does technetium gain or lose electrons?
Metallic chromium atoms tend to lose electrons in a chemical reaction. The chromium in a compound may either gain or lose, depending on the reaction.
What kind of atoms tend to lose atoms?
Metals lose electrons.
