• @[email protected]
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    52 years ago

    Unfortunately, this is not the case. There are plenty of atoms/molecules that have greater negative ionization states than -1. This wouldn’t even make everything neutral.

    Captain Pedant… AWAAAAYYYY.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 years ago

      OTOH, if you shifted the ionization state of every single atom, then pretty much every molecule would end up flying apart. You can’t form H2O if hydrogen has no electrons at all; hydrogen becomes a single proton.