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4 electrons are required to fill the outer shell of a carbon atom. This, the second shell of carbon, can contain two 2s electrons and six 2p electrons, but in a neutral carbon atom it actually contains only two 2s electrons and two 2p electrons. Therefore, four more electrons are required to fill the outer shell.

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