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Your question is a little ambiguous, in part to the problems with superscripts and subscripts.

Oxygen has 8 protons and 8 electrons.

It forms a dimer, O2 which would have 16 electrons.

If you have a single oxygen atom, it will try to fill it's electron shell by gaining 2 additional electrons to give it a negative 2 charge. I assume this is what you're asking. In this case, then you would have 8 electrons + 2 additional ones for a total of 10 electrons, which is the same as Neon.

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