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Butane's chemical formula is C4H10. So, get our your periodic table and look at the steps one at a time, break it up. The Carbons are the basis of this structure so look at it first. You'll find that Carbon is 4th across on the columns of the table (disregard the elements in the middle) so you know that Carbon has 4 valence electrons. Draw a "C" for Carbon and put one dot on each side of the letter representing the electrons. Carbon "desires" to have an octet, or have 8 electrons, so your task is to balance it in that way. Next, draw another "C" right of the original with its 4 electron dots. You can see now that you have satisfied the connection between those 2 carbons with the electron dot on the right side of the 1st Carbon, and the left of the 2nd. Draw 2 more "C's" in the same manner. Now, you have balanced the basic Carbons of Butane. However, with the Carbons you must satisfy the electrons with hydrogens, as they are a part of the fuel. You will see that each Carbon has spare dots on the outsides of them. Here you must put another electron dot to satisfy it, with the letter "H" for Hydrogen. Hydrogen contributes one electron so it balances that side. By continuing with this process you can see that you will end up with 4 "C"'s in a line with 4 "H"s on the top, 4 on the bottom, and 1 on the left and right. This is very hard to explain but I hope I represented it decently. In the end it should look something like this:
H H H H
H:C:C:C:C:H
H H H H
with the dots in between the carbons and hydrogens of course.
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