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Dec 05, 2024

Nonmetals rarely lose electrons in chemical reactions because?

Nonmetals rarely lose electrons in chemical reactions. What are the underlying reasons for this behavior?

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Feb 15, 2025

The reason for this is because nonmetals, have close to fulfilling an octet and need to gain few more electrons to do this, not to lose more. Nonmetals, because of the fact they need only few more electrons to satisfy their octet they would receive or share electrons to do this. The property that nonmetals have are that they are very electronegative, they possess a strong affinity to pull electron density closer, because they possess fewer electron shells and possess even protons this allows for this.
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Feb 18, 2025

with this one i know the answer in craters one reason i looked it up and i learned about it there is my evidence
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