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#1: What is the charge on an electrically neutral atom of hydrogen?

A. 1

B. 0

C. +1

D. +2
**My answer: B. 0

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my answer is B.The electrical charge of the hydrogen atom is thought to be exactly zero. This is a consequence of the apparent equality of the magnitude of the electrical charges of the electron and the proton, and their opposite sign. The electrical charge of neutral atoms has been measured to be zero, with an uncertainty of something like 10^(-20) e, where e is the elementary charge.
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