Fluorine has seven electrons in its outermost shell. it will most likely try to join an atom with

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Ireland Esparza

3 March, 05:46

Fluorine has seven electrons in its outermost shell. it will most likely try to join an atom with

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Cierra Landry · Answer 1

Its either with itself to become fluoride Fl2 or with an alkali metal (elements in group 1) to achieve a stable electronic configuration or octet structure

Aleena Bishop · Answer 2

F (Fluorine) has (8-1 = 7) electrons in outer most shell and so, it will try to bond with an atom which has only 1 electron in its outer most shell.

Explanation:

According to Octet rule, most of the atoms are said to be stable if it has 8 electrons in its outermost shell. As already said, Fluorine atom has 7 electrons while it requires 1 more electron to attain stability.

Hence, F atom will try to join another atom with only one electron in outer shell, like H, Li and Na.