If you put to the electrons and hydrogen making it a negative charge does that make it stable or unstable

I'm pretty sure it would make it unstable, hydrogen only has one proton thus having the ability to stabilize one electron, adding another electron would most likely make the atom reactive to any positively charged atom to loose this extra electron.

answer:

the answer is 6 valence electrons.

explanation:

valence is the # of electrons on the outer most shell of an atom.

oxygen has 6.

although, the valency of oxygen is 2, because it only needs to make 2 covalent bonds, or gain 2 electrons, to achieve the stable octet configuration of a noble gas.

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