Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Difference

What is the difference between a cation and an anion?

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

A cation is a positively charged ion. It's positive because it loses a valence electron. A anion is a negatively charged ion because it gains a valence electrons.

matt said...

An anion is a negative ion. A cation is a postive ion. An anion mostly deals with nonmetals. Also postive ion deal with element become noble gases.

Anonymous said...

A cation is a postively charged ion. An anion is a negatively charged ion. The cation is first and the anion is second in an ionic bond.

rach said...

the difference btwn a cation and an anion are that. an anion is a negatively charged ion. a cation is a positively charged ion.

..::..Fair..::.. said...

A cation is a positively charged ion. An anion is a negatively charged ion. A cation loses a valence electron and an anion gains one.