WRITE A 3-4 SENTENCE SUMMARY ABOUT ATOMS.

An atom is the smallest unit of matter that retains all of the chemical properties of an element. Atoms combine to form molecules, which then interact to form solids, gases, or liquids. For example, water is composed of hydrogen and oxygen atoms that have combined to form water molecules.

Explanation:

Atom is the smallest particle in the universe. An atom is made up of sub-atomic particles. They are the protons (positively charged particle), electrons (negatively charged particles) and neutrons neutrally charged particles). The lightest atom ever known is Hydrogen atom. An atom is electrically neutral. When a atom looses or gains and electrons it is called an ions.

periodic trends is an atom that gets larger as the number of electronic shells increase, the radius of atoms increases as you go down a certain group in the periodic table of elements. in general, the size of an atom will decrease as you move from left to right of a certain period.

answer:

the answer is 6 valence electrons.

explanation:

valence is the # of electrons on the outer most shell of an atom.

oxygen has 6.

although, the valency of oxygen is 2, because it only needs to make 2 covalent bonds, or gain 2 electrons, to achieve the stable octet configuration of a noble gas.

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