Homework Help: chemistry- thank you

Posted by Jazmin on Sunday, October 31, 2010 at 2:35pm.

How many valence shell electrons are there in a ground state silicon atom?

Am i suppose to just count the electrons after the core electrons?

chemistry- thank you - bobpursley, Sunday, October 31, 2010 at 2:45pm
http://environmentalchemistry.com/yogi/periodic/Si.html#Atomic

count the number of electrons in the outer energy level.

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