Carbon-14 has a half-life of 5,730 years. If an archaeological sample has only one-fourth of the radioactivity of a similar sample from today, how old is the archaeological sample? Give your answer in years.

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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