Question
What is the charge on a chloride ion? How does this charge come about?

Answer

(i) The chloride ion has unit negative charge.
(ii) When the chlorine atom (2, 8, 7) accepts one electron so as to have a stable argon like structure, there is one electron in excess, as compared to the number of protons in the nucleus. This in turn makes chloride ion negatively charged.

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