When an atom or molecule loses or gains one or more electrons, we call it an ion. If it loses an electron (net gain of charge because an electron carries a negative charge) we call it a cation, when it gains an electron we call it an anion.
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I happened to glance at the same corner of the room Connor kept glancing at. I’ll be damned if I didn’t see a shimmer of something, of light, of movement?…she said, “I saw it, too.”