Question

The table shows the total number of electrons in Atom A and Atom B.
Atom Number of Electrons
10
B
12
Which statement is correct? (5 points)
O A will give up two electrons to form bonds.
• B will give up two electrons to form bonds.
• Both A and B will be chemically unreactive.
• Both A and A B will gain electrons to become stable.

Answer 1

Answer:

The answer is "B will give up two electrons to form bonds".

Explanation:

To first solve this multiple choice question, we need to identify the Atoms, A and B.

We can do this by looking at their amount of electrons.

For instance,

A = Neon = 10 Electrons

B = Magnesium = 12 Electrons

With this information we can then look at both elements charges to see what they need to form a bond.

In this case Neon doesn't want to form a bond, since they're in a complete octet, however Magnesium does not have a complete octet. So, it wants to give up two electrons to form a bond (2+ charge shows us that).

This then shows us that Option 2, "B will give up two electrons to form bonds" is correct.