How to Find Valence Electrons! (and Total Electrons)

You can find valence electrons with a shortcut using the periodic table, but it’s good to only do that after you understand why the shortcut works, and to do that you have to draw out the full electrons and orbitals for a few different atoms. Valence electrons are just electrons in the last orbital, they are different from core electrons, which are the total number of electrons except the valence.
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    How about potassium? How many valence electrons if it is a 1 positived charged element?

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    4th shell can hold how many electrons

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  • @bruceduncan9067
    @bruceduncan906711 ай бұрын

    I have never heard of more than three shell please explain or give an example

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    Жыл бұрын

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    4 жыл бұрын

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  • @aliashraf9180
    @aliashraf91805 жыл бұрын

    According to this video third shell can hold up to 8 electron but according to to rule of 2n^2 third shell can hold up to 18 electron. Can anyone explain this

  • @RobinReaction

    @RobinReaction

    5 жыл бұрын

    Ali Ashraf I’m not including the d orbital in this video, this is an intro video for explaining the octet rule and how to find valence electrons. You’re right though, if you include the entire third shell including the d portion it can hold up to 18e

  • @aliashraf9180

    @aliashraf9180

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@RobinReaction if I am right than how do atoms gain stability by octate rule

  • @RobinReaction

    @RobinReaction

    5 жыл бұрын

    That’s more complicated than I can explain here, I would search around on KZread for different videos!

  • @itxzela
    @itxzela7 ай бұрын

    i am confused, How do you know when the element has one more electron or less electrons?

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    Umm.. hey I just wanna ask. I am familiar with the short cut but we are not gonna use the periodic table for the exam so we have to do it manually... are there any ways on how to solve it?

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    @RobinReaction

    6 жыл бұрын

    if you're not allowed to use a periodic table, you'll have to memorize where the elements are. Too bad, that sounds annoying to do!

  • @maggie3391
    @maggie33914 жыл бұрын

    What about elements that have more than 20 total electrons?

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    7 жыл бұрын

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    6 жыл бұрын

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    How to find valance electrons for transition metals and post transition

  • @RobinReaction

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    5 жыл бұрын

    Technical Guy that’s not in this video, I would suggest searching for another video to answer that question!

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    @itsme4065

    5 жыл бұрын

    Ok

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    6 жыл бұрын

    Nirmala Lokini you're welcome!

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    How about the Hidrogen? how can we find?

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    7 жыл бұрын

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    @RobinReaction

    2 жыл бұрын

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    @tamareajones86086 жыл бұрын

    The third subshell can hold a maximum number of 18 electrons. This is designated by the 2n^2 equation if you plug in 3 for n which represents the third subshell. On the detailed screen you wrote it can hold up to 8 electrons. Does this mean the third subshell can hold up to 8 valence electrons? Could you please clarify.

  • @armanhassan4366

    @armanhassan4366

    6 жыл бұрын

    it holds 18

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    6 жыл бұрын

    Tamarea Jones is that 2n squared?

  • @chlsey3372

    @chlsey3372

    5 жыл бұрын

    yes the third shell can only hold up to 8 valence electrons

  • @aliashraf9180

    @aliashraf9180

    5 жыл бұрын

    I also need answer to this question can anyone explain this

  • @chlsey3372

    @chlsey3372

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@aliashraf9180 okay the third shell can hold up to 18, however *if it's the most outer level, it can only hold 8 (this applies to all outmost levels).*

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    @3gg5844 жыл бұрын

    1:54

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    @NatashaAllen7 жыл бұрын

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  • @neighborhoodstudent6634
    @neighborhoodstudent66344 жыл бұрын

    3rd shell is wrong

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    @RobinReaction

    6 жыл бұрын

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  • @farfymcdoogle3461
    @farfymcdoogle34615 жыл бұрын

    Nope 👎 Iodine has 3 valence electrons, not 7. I drew it out twice... 53 total electrons, 2 in the first orbit, 8 per orbit moving outwards until you get to 53 total electrons. There are 8 orbits with 3 valence. Please explain!

  • @coldsphagett8910
    @coldsphagett89105 жыл бұрын

    I thought 3rd shell can hold up 18 electrons

  • @RobinReaction

    @RobinReaction

    5 жыл бұрын

    if you include the d orbital, but that comes after all the examples i show here and isn't helpful for predicting valence electrons.

  • @coldsphagett8910

    @coldsphagett8910

    5 жыл бұрын

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