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Give the scientific reason for the following:

In the atmosphere, oxygen is available as $O_{2}$ but not as O.

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Valency of oxygen is $2$ because it can accept or share $2$ electrons to form a bond. Hence it is available as $O_{2}$ but not as O.

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