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What is the outer shell of carbon?

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15y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

The valence shell of carbon is a linear combination of 2s and 2p^3 we typically call the sp^3 hybridized orbital or the sp^2 hybridized orbital depending on the number of sigma bonds to carbon four or three respectively. There is also sp linear hybridization otherwise known as the triple bond motif of carbon.

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