Why highly charged anions are rare?

1.	Why highly charged anions are rare?
Answer» Most highly charged anions are basically very unstable so, they mostly can't exist in nature, the reason for INSTABILITY is that anions have more electrons and is bigger than its RESPECTIVE atom (the negative charge indicates the amount of extra electrons present in an anion) and effective nuclear charge (force of attraction experienced by a electron due to positively charged nucleus) decreases with increase in size so, nucleus can't HOLD those extra electrons hence, it can't maintain its form. but in case of highly electronegative anions like Fluorine, chlorine, oxygen etc they can form a highly charged anion but very few bcuz highly charged anions have very high energy and they r mostly very REACTIVE so, they will eventually lose it through radiation or form a more stable compound.. HOPE THIS HELPS ;-)

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