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I'm digging back a ways here, so not sure if this is completely correct.....

Valence shell refers to the electron orbitals an element has. If you look at the Periodic Table, all the elements in any column in the table have similar outer electron orbitals and so all of the elements in that column tend to form molecules of the same sort. For example NaCl (salt) and KCl, where sodium and potasium both form the same sort of molecular bond with chlorine.

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