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Can someone please explain the relationship between the group number, the number of valence electrons lost or gained, and the formula of the compound that results between Ca and F?
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Can someone please explain the relationship between the group number, the number of valence electrons lost or gained, and the formula of the compound that results between Ca and F?

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Ca has 2 valence electrons and F has 7, they would end up having to share electrons but Ca or F has to keep one because in total there are 9 valence elections and only 8 are needed to make this pair "happy". that's all i can provide. i hope it helped some
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