It depends on what you mean by 'higher energy'.
Carbon needs to have 8 electron in its outermost shell to have it completely filled, 4 more valence electrons than it has in the neutral for of carbon.
Carbon has 4 outermost electrons.
You shouldn't use terms like "outer level", because they're confusing. It could potentially mean at least two things, specified more precisely below. The highest occupied energy level of a ground state neutral carbon atom, the 2p level, has two electrons. The number of electrons in a ground state neutral carbon atom that have a principal quantum number of 2 (the highest associated with any electrons in such an atom) is four.
Carbon has four electrons in its valence shell (outershell). Since this energy shell can hold eight electrons, each carbon atom can share electrons with up to four different atoms. Carbon can combine with other elements as well as with itself. This allows carbon to form many different compounds.
4 valence electrons
In its ground state, carbon does not have any electrons in the third energy level.
The valance energy level contains 4 electrons in carbon.
Carbon has four electrons in the outermost energy level, which is energy level two. It needs eight electrons to have this energy level filled.
K,L = 2, 4 Electron configuration 1s2, 2s2 2p2
Carbon has four electrons in the outermost energy level, which is energy level two. It needs eight electrons to have this energy level filled.
Carbon has 2 energy levels. There are 6 electrons, 6 protons, and 6 neutrons.
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There are four electrons in the outer or valence shell of a neutral carbon atom.
In a neutral carbon atom, there will be 4 electrons in the outer most valence shell.
There are four electrons in the second energy level of carbon. Here's the electron configuration: 1s2 2s2 2p2 or [He] 2s2 2p2.
carbon has 2 electrons in its first energy level and 4 in its secound energy level because carbons atomic number is 6. 4+2=6.