Reply to post: Re: Explain pleeeese

No, you haven't gone deaf – the Large Hadron Collider has been wound down for more upgrades

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Re: Explain pleeeese

The regular hydrogen nucleus is just one positively-charged proton.

The innermost electron orbital around it, known as the S, has room for two negatively-charged electrons.

H+ has no electrons and is just a proton.

H has one electron and a neutral electric charge.

H− has two electrons, and is stable because they fill the S orbital so nicely.

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