Posted by Larry Hoover on April 29, 2009, at 20:02:11
In reply to Re: chemistry help, posted by Deneb on April 29, 2009, at 19:33:21
> I don't think a positively charged oxygen is possible.
It's an arbitrary distinction, perhaps, but the formal charge on the hydronium ion (H3O+) is on the oxygen atom. When R is not H, the structure is an oxonium ion. O+ atoms can be created, but I don't know of their existence in nature.
Lar
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