The nonmetal family of the periodic table that wants to gain, lose, or share four electrons is the family.
a. carbon
b. nitrogen
c. oxygen
d. halogen

Carbon is the representative element of the family that either looses 4 electrons or gains 4 electrons in order to become stable.

There is one s orbital, and there are three p orbitals, five d orbitals, and seven f orbitals. thus, the answer is b. do not confuse the number of orbitals in a subshell with the number of electrons the subshell can hold. each orbital can hold two electrons, so the capacity of an nf subshell is 14 electrons.