I believe you are talking about fluorine. If you are, F needs one more electron to gain a full shell.
If you go to WikiAnswers for this information, that is counterproductive, because there is a much better way to do it. Look at the Periodic Table. Groups IA through VIIIA tell you what you need to know. IA has one valence electron, IIA has two valence electrons etc. Fluorine is in group VIIA and therefore has seven valence electrons. All atoms want eight, and thus fluorine is in need of one more.
A fluorine atom has originally 7 electrons in this valence shell. To have a complete octet, or 8 electrons in the valence shell, it should gain just 1 electron.
Fluorine has 7 valence electrons and needs one more electron to fill its valence shell.
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It needs only 1 more electron since it already has 7 valence electrons.
it needs six more electrons to have a full outer valence shell.
I think that because chlorine has 17 electrons in all, and ten of them are filled up on the first two shells, then seven of them should be on the third shell, so seven of them are valance electrons.
Valence electrons are the outer layer of electrons, the part that reacts. Argon is a noble gas, so it has a full valence electron level. It has eight valence electrons.
Valence electron configuration in group 7A (halogens): ns2, np5 in which n=2, 3, 4, 5, ... etc. Starting with fluorine, F, electron configuration: (1s2), 2s2 2p5 (non valence electrons in () brackets)
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11 electrons makes the third energy level complete. One
11 electrons makes the third energy level complete. One
11 electrons makes the third energy level complete. One
It needs only 1 more electron since it already has 7 valence electrons.
it needs six more electrons to have a full outer valence shell.
They will gain 3 electrons from something with 3 valence electrons.
Oxygen is in group 16 so it has 6 valence electrons. In order to have a full outer shell, and satisfy the octet rule, it needs 2 more valence electrons to have a full outer shell.
11 electrons makes the third energy level complete. One
it is in the oxygen family and has 6 valence electrons it requires 2 electrons
An atom with 4 valence electrons will have to either gain 4 electrons or lose 4 electrons to achieve a full set of eight electrons.