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it is not right to say that " an atom form as many bonds as there are protons?"

because an atom of any elemant can form bond to become stable let us take a example of oxygen it have 6 electrons in the outermost shell and to become stable it forms double covalent bond with another oxygen atom or with two hydrogen to form water it means that it forms bond with 2 electrons so in any case of any atom of any element to have 8 electrons it forms the number of bonds of the remaining electrons to form atoms.

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