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Currently in my Chemsitry class we are reviewing these ions. Since these ions are formed of perfectly neutral elements, how can they have a charge as a whole. My teacher told me these charges in the anions can be attributed to an incomplete oxygen bond such as the negative 2 charge in carbonate( CO subscript 3, superscript 2), but why is this?
-Scott
-Scott