Which statement is true?

metals have 5 to 8 electrons in their outermost shell and will easily give them up.

metals have 1 to 3 electrons in their outermost shell and will easily give them up.

metals don't have electrons.

metals have 1 to 3 electrons in their outermost shell and will seek more electrons rather than give any up.

Option (b) is the correct answer.

Explanation:

It is known that metals are rich in electrons and in order to gain stability they readily lose electrons so  that their octet becomes complete.

For example, sodium is a metal and its atomic number is 11. It readily loses one electron to gain stability.

Also, it is easy for metals to lose 1 to 3 electrons from their outermost shell.

Thus, we can conclude that metals have 1 to 3 electrons in their outermost shell and will easily give them up.

in the year 2850, humans successfully colonized mars. the martian modules that were constructed could hold only a small population of people. it is now a century later, and the population on mars has grown to 600 people. of the current mars population, 45 people express the recessive phenotype for phenylketon- uria (pku) syndrome (pp genotype).

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