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The central Carbon atom shared all 4 of it's outer shell (valence) electrons with 4 Hydrogen atoms (1 electron each), the Hydrogen atoms also share their lone valence electron with the carbon, each Carbon-Hydrogen bond (there are 4) is a sharing of 2 electrons one from each atom

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