2 on the first ring
8 on the second ring
6 on the third ring
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The atomic number is 16, so a sulfur atom has 16 protons in the nucleus and 16 electrons in the electron cloud.
A sulfate ion consists of one sulfur atom, four oxygen atoms, and two "excess" electrons from another source. Each sulfur atom has 16 electrons, each oxygen atom has 8 electrons, so that the total is 16 + (4 X 8) + 2 = 50. The question of "bonding electrons" is not quite so clear. When acting as an ion, each sulfate ions has two electrons available for ionic bonding. Internal bonding within each sulfate ion is generally supposed to correspond to two sulfur-oxygen double bonds with four bonding electrons each, two sulfur-oxygen single bonds with two bonding electrons each, and the two excess electrons, for a total of 14.
The sulfur atom has 16 electrons around its orbitals. The third energy level is the most tightly bound to the nucleus.
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Each sulfur atom has 6 electrons in its outermost shell.
There are 6 valence electrons in the sulfur atom.
A neutral atom of sulfur has 16 electrons.
There are sixteen (16) electrons in a neutral atom of Sulfur.
6 electrons and 16 protons.
16 electrons
A sulfur atom gains 2 electrons when it becomes a sulfide ion.
Sulfur is a non metal element. There are 16 electrons in a single atom.
The outer valence shell of a sulfur atom contains a total of 6 electrons: two 3s electrons and four 3p electrons.
16, the same as the atomic number of sulfur.
16.
Sixteen.