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State octet rule.

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According to octet rule, an atom is "complete". when its valance shell has eight electrons. The atoms with incomplete orbitals share electrons and in doing so end up with full valence shell.Hence, The octet rule refers to the tendency of atoms to prefer to have eight electrons in the valence shell.

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