Consider the H2+ ion. (b) How many electrons are there in the H2+ ion?

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Hello everyone in this video, we're being asked to determine the number of electrons present and the HE two plus ion. Well, let's go ahead and do that. So we have this HE two plus I am. So first let's focus on just the HE two. So we have two atoms of our helium. So we'll have that two times each. H E I don't. How many are electrons are going to be in there? Well, the atomic number of H G is too, we know that there's going to be two protons as well as two electrons. So there's going to be two electrons per atom here two times 2 is equal to four electrons. So that's just going to be the HE two as a neutral compound. And now we're talking about the ion, we have a plus one charge here, meaning that there's going to be one less electron Some -1. Either 4 -1 is equal to three. So the numbers of electrons presence in this ion is going to be three electrons and that is going to be our final answer for this problem. Thank you all so much for watching