Ineed for my chemistry lab report. in my results for a titration chem experiment i found out that the unripe orange had the highest vitamin c content, followed by the half-ripe and the ripe orange had the least vitamin c content. could someone provide me with a plausible explanation regarding why the vitamin c content of the orange decreased upon ripening. i need to link it to the shell life of vitamin c, temperature etc.

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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you need to have a picture of the atom that way we can answer it