Cation

Real World Example

Imagine you're at a busy airport with a heavy suitcase, but you want to move quickly through the crowd. Just like how you drop some items from your suitcase to make it lighter and more agile, an atom loses electrons to become a cation, which is a positive ion. In this analogy, the suitcase is the atom, the items are the electrons, and the process of dropping them to move efficiently through the crowd is like the atom shedding electrons to become positively charged and more reactive.