Please join us the 2016-2017 Open House for PreK - 12th grades on Wednesday, August 17 from 6 p.m. - 7 p.m. Class schedules for grades 6th - 12th are now available to be picked up in the front office from 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. There is a new Friday Dismissal time of 3:00 p.m. this year.
1 Electrons-Subatomic particle that has almost no weight and carries a negative charge; orbits in a shell about the nucleus of an atom. 2  Neutrons-Subatomic particle that has a weight of one atomic mass unit, carries no charge, and is found in the nucleus of an atom.
More specifically, the atom will have a positive net charge if it has more protons in its nucleus than electrons surrounding its nucleus a negative net charge if it has more electrons surrounding its nucleus than protons in its nucleus no net charge if it has equal numbers of protons and electrons When an atom carries a positive net charge, it forms a cation, or positively charged ion. Likewise, when an atom carries a negative net charge, it forms an anion, or negatively charged ion. In your case, the atom is said to contain. eight protons. nine neutrons â they do not influence the net charge of the atom.