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Atoms of which two elements in the ground state contain the same number of valence electrons

A- al &si
B- al & b
C- al & zn
D- al & ge

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B. Valence electrons in an atom correspond to group number. So, if two elements are in the same group they have the same amount of atoms in the outer shell.
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