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Help me indicate whether OXYGEN will gain or lose electrons to get a full outer shell and how many electrons they will need to gain or lose

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Oxygen have 6 valence electrons. It needs only two electrons to get a full outer shell.

Thus, oxygen will gain two electrons.

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