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When a chemical substance has either lost an electron or gained an oxygen?
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When a chemical substance has either lost an electron or gained an oxygen?

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if atoms want to be constant, they should gain or loose electrons from their valence orbits.
for doing this, metals will loose electrons and non-metals will gain electrons from metals. this happens in ionic compounds.
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