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No, an atom with six electrons will try to react with another atom to gain two more electrons. Actually the fewer electrons the atom needs the more reactive it will be unless it has exactly eight valence electrons in its outer shell like a noble gas(He, Ne, Ar, etc.) Hope this helps!
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What is the results of losing electrons?
when a neutral atom loses an electron it becomes a positive ion. it now has a stable outer most shell.
What happens to the stability of atom when they form covalent electrons?
The term 'covalent' is usually applied to a bond in the context of chemistry; electrons are the particles that participate in bonding. The act of bonding helps atoms achieve a stable configuration, one way of achieving this is by sharing its outer electrons in a bond. One might say the stability of an atom increases thereby.
Why is it important that protons and electrons attract to each other?
The main reason that electrons and protons are dominant in matter is that these are stable particles and do not decay spontaneously. The neutron, which is unstable outside of a nucleus, is stable within the nucleus of an atom. The reason that the protons and neutrons are bound together is the strong nuclear force. The coulombic attraction between protons and electrons then binds the electrons to the nucleus to form an atom.
How many electrons in the atom Pb?
Lead is a metal element. There are 82 electrons in a single atom.
How do electrons move from one atom to the next?
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How many electrons does a stable sodium atom have?
A stable sodium atom has 11 electrons.
If an atom has six or seven valence electrons it is more stable if it electrons to fill the octet becoming a ion?
Gains, Positive
What causes an atom to be stable?
An atom becomes stable by gaining or loosing electrons.
An atom is stable when its outermost orbit is?
It is stable when filled with electrons.
How many electrons would an atom of carbon need to have to be a negative ion?
There are six electrons in two shells.In order to stable carbon, it take electrons from nearest noble gas to stable the carbon.It order to stable carbon it gain -4 electrons from the nearest noble gas Neon.
How does a atom become stable?
When the atom has 8 valence electrons.
Is an atom with six electrons more stable than an atom with one?
No. A atom is stable when it has a full valence shell. The way this works is (2,8,8,8...) For an example magnesium which has 12 electrons. Magnesium loses 2 electrons ( so it has 2, 8 and then has a full outer shell) to gain a full outer charge which results in a charge of 2+.
Why are number of electrons and protons in boron equal?
Five protons and five electrons. It has two stable isotopes with five and six neutrons, respectively.
Is electrons share unequally in ionic bond?
Yes, The electrons are unequally shared in an Ionic Bond. One atom has more electrons than the other atom. Every Atom has Electrons that are called Valence Electrons. These Valence Electrons are the electrons in the outer shell of the Bohr Model of the atom. There should be a stable number of Valence electrons (2 or 8) for an atom to be completely stable. To stabilize the valence electrons the atom bonds with other atoms. One type of bond is called ionic bond where one atom gives up a certain number of electrons to be stable and another atom gains all of those lost atoms.
What an atom becomes when it has a complete set of electrons?
STABLE
How many valence electrons do stable atoms have?
A stable atom has 8 electrons in its outer most valence shell. A simple way to remember this is that all atoms want to be like the noble gases which all have 8 electrons (except helium but the reason is complicated and not necessary here)
When an atom has eight valence electrons it has a stable arrangement called what?
stable electronic configuration
