What are the charges of oxide, and fluoride anions?

1 Answer
Dec 15, 2016

Which charge do you mean? Electronic charge, or nuclear charge?

Explanation:

Clearly, oxide anion, O2, is a doubly charged anion, whereas F is singly charged. But both anions have the same number of electrons.

Nevertheless, fluoride anion has a higher nucular charge, Z=9 versus Z=8.