How do you calculate formal charge of an ion?

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anor277
Jun 4, 2016

Well hopefully you do it correctly.

Explanation:

See here, and here, and here,for specific examples of how to calculate a formal charge.

Most of the time when we write a chemical formula, we write it in such a way that the constituent atoms are neutral. This is not always the case, but most of the time we are understood. We could write common salt as #Na^+Cl^-# but more commonly it appears as #NaCl#. More complicated and relevant examples appear in the links and elsewhere.

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