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using your text, compare oxygen, sodium, nitrogen, and neon. which atom has the greatest capacity to gain electrons
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using your text, compare oxygen, sodium, nitrogen, and neon. which atom has the greatest capacity to gain electrons

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The atom with the greatest capacity to gain electron is OXYGEN.
Oxygen has atomic number 8 and it has six electrons in its outermost shell. In order to attain octet structure, oxygen prefer to gain electron from other elements which have electrons which they can donate.
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