Carbon has ___ electrons in its valence shell.

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Solution

The correct option is D 4
The electronic configuration of carbon atom is $1 s^{2} 2 s^{2} 2 p^{2}$ , i.e the L shell of carbon, which is the valence shell, has only 4 electrons.

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