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Outermost shell cannot have more than ....... electrons.


A
2
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4
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C
6
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D
8
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Solution

The correct option is C 8
Since s and p orbitals of the outermost shell are filled before d and f orbitals of inner orbitals, outermost shell can have the maximum of sum of the capacities of s and p orbitals i.e. 8 .

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