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Not including hydrogen or helium which element would you expect to bond covalently with an oxygen atom to form a two-atom molecule?
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Not including hydrogen or helium which element would you expect to bond covalently with an oxygen atom to form a two-atom molecule?

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any element in the period of alkile earth metal cuz O has a valence electron of 6 and the alkile earth metals have V.E. of 2 which completes the octet rule...making it covalently bond to form a 2 atom molecule ex: Lewis structure Be:O
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