Question

Number of valence electrons in carbon (Z=6)

Answer 1

Answer:

The element of CARBON, you already know that the atomic number tells you the number of electrons. That means there are 6 electrons in a carbon atom. Looking at the picture, you can see there are two electrons in shell one and four electrons in shell two.

Answer 2

Thus, carbon has 4 valence electrons. A quicker way to determine the number of valence electrons in carbon is to determine the group number (exclude metals) of carbon, which is 4. 4 is also the number... Since carbon has an atomic number of 6, the total number of electrons (both the core and valence electrons) is 6