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Why does nitrogen tend to gain electrons? Please help !!!!
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Why does nitrogen tend to gain electrons? Please help !!!!

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it has 5 valance electrons, therefore it only needs to gain 3 more

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Nitrogen is in Group V and has five valence electrons, so it needs to gain three electrons to get a full valence shell. :)

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