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What is the charge of the nucleus of an oxygen atom?(1) 0 (2) -2 (3) +8 (4) +16

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Oxygen has a proton (atomic) number of 8, so the nucleus, being full of proton charge +1s and neutron charge 0s, will have a charge of +8
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