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Understanding Polyatomic Ions: Sulfite & Sulfate

Thread starter Bashyboy
Start date Oct 4, 2011
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Oct 4, 2011

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Bashyboy

How come polyatomic ions--for instance, sulfite and sulfate--have the same net charge?

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Bloodthunder

You can see the ions here and how they are bonded, giving them their charge.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfite

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