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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Maybe next time just say you have two electrons in your covalent shell

[–] lena 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's called the valence shell, covalent is a type of bond where the atoms share electron pairs

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I was testing you =P

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Also the valence shell is the outer shell and any shell with n>1 would require more than 2 electrons to be noble.