How many electron clouds are in a atom of gold?

Answer 1

There's only one electron cloud per atom so i think you mean how many electron shells there are or how many levels. If you know the number of protons that gold has then you know the number of electrons it has. The first levels holds 2 electrons, the second holds 8, the third holds up to 18 but is stable with eight and each level after that only holds up to 18. so if an atom has 10 electrons, the first level will hold 2 and the second will hold 8 which add up to 10 electrons. so I'm pretty sure you can do the math