What's needed to build a neutral atom?

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Chemistry

Keira Jefferson

8 April, 00:10

What's needed to build a neutral atom?

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Alden Curry · Answer 1

Protons are positively charged, electrons are negatively charged (with the same magnitude of charge per particle as a proton). Neutrons have no charge. Now, in a "neutral atom", the number of protons must be equal to the number of electrons, otherwise it would not be neutral.