Does oxygen have a negative or positive charge?

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11 March, 17:19

Does oxygen have a negative or positive charge?

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Norah · Answer 1

The unequal sharing of electrons gives the water molecule a slight negative charge near its oxygen atom and a slight positive charge near its hydrogen atoms. When a neutral molecule has a positive area at one end and a negative area at the other, it is a polar molecule.

Dean Bright · Answer 2

it is neither positive or negative, but neutral