I’m frankly clueless what it means and google, my savior, has been no help. To give a bit more context I’m making a write up on the element Cadmium and I’m supposed to say what it’s ionic states are.
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Atoms can form ions. The ions it forms readily depends a long on various things; including the valence band and electron orbitals. Different elements have commonly formed “stable” ions. Cadmium in particular likes to give up 2 electrons because giving up those electrons make it a happy little ion. So Cd+2 is common.
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