A lot. Just because an electron (or more) isn't out there does not mean the shell does not exist. A shell is, if you recall, an energy level. A given atom has a given number of occupied shells in its neutral, un-ionized state. When an electron in any atom is given energy (the right amount), it can skip up to another energy level. The atom has become ionized; the electron had gone to a higher energy level. The electron then releases the energy and falls back. This ionization and de-ionization process happens continuously in gas discharge lighting (think fluorescent lights). And more applied voltage will kick electrons up to even higher energy levels. It gets more complicated. When a bunch of atoms of something are around, they have the individual "possible energy levels" as mentioned. (They're actually called Fermi energy levels.) But when some atoms are clustered together, other energy levels can exist where electronis may go that did not exist in the individual atoms. In compounds, its even more complicated. Yes, there will be a "practical upper limit" to the number of energy levels possible because at some high energy, the electronis are all torn away and the naked nucleus is left exposed. This is what happens in heavy ion colliders when atoms are stripped of their electrons and the nucleus is put into the bore of the accelerator. But those energy levels did and do exist, whether electrons are in them or not.
As silicon is in the third row of the periodic table, it has 3 shells. (2-8-4)
An atom of silicon has three electron shells or orbitals. These are the K, L, and M shells. The K shell can hold up to 2 electrons, the L shell can hold up to 8 electrons, and the M shell can hold up to 18 electrons.
This is a chemical element. You can find the how many electron in a single atom by using a periodic table.
A magnesium atom has 12 electrons arranged in 3 shells. The electron configuration of magnesium is 2-8-2, indicating that it has 2 electrons in the first shell, 8 in the second shell, and 2 in the third shell.
there are two shells of electrons in the nitrogen atom that actually have electrons in them, nitrogen has two electrons in the first shell, the S orbital, and five in the outer shell, the P orbital. this causes nitrogen to have a valence shell with five electrons.
The uranium atom has seven electron shells.
A gold atom typically has a total of six electron shells (rings) surrounding its nucleus.
I assume you mean energy levels/shells. It has 1.
A titanium atom has 22 electrons, which fill up its electron shells in this order: 2 in the first shell, 8 in the second shell, and 12 in the third shell. Therefore, a titanium atom has 2 electron rings.
A sulfur atom has 3 electron shells.
A sodium atom has 3 energy shells.
A bismuth atom has 6 electron shells.
Einsteinium has 7 electron shells.
Promethium has 6 electron shells.
Lawrencium has 7 electron shells.
Praseodymium has six electron shells.
Thorium has 7 electron shells.