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Question
An element X has a mass number 4 and atomic number 2. Write the valency of this element?
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Solution
The element X has its atomic number as 2. Thus, an atom of X contains two electrons in it. These 2 electrons fill the X-shell completely.
Thus the valency of X is zero.
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