How to find total number of valence electrons in molecules?

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michelleunicorn

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on: Sep 20, 2013

How do you find the number of valence electrons in CBr4? How do you do this? Explanation please?

sammy

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Reply #1 on: Sep 20, 2013

each Br shares an electron pair with the C, so there are 8.

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