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Answer:
Carbon has 6 electrons.
Before I answer, here's what you need to know.
There are 7 shells. Each shell can hold a certain amount of electrons.
1: 2
2: 8
3: 18
4: 32
5: 32
6: 18
7: 8
Carbon has 6 electrons, remember? So shell 1 is already completely filled. Shell 1 completely full, so onto shell 2.
Shell 2 needs 8 electrons, but carbon only has 4 to give, so 2, 4.
I hope this helps!
Answer:
2,4
Explanation:
So in an atom the first/smallest shell always has 2 electrons in it
Then the next one has 8
Then the one after that has 8
And so on
However, carbon only has 6 electrons, so we get the 2 from the first shell, and then 4 from the next one