in the compound magnesium chloride,mgCl²,how many electron/s came from magnesium atom to form the compound?how many electron/s can be received by a chlorine atom?
Magnesium has 12 electrons and its electronic configuration can be written as 2,8,7. Magnesium has 2 valence electrons. In MgCl² each chlorine has 17 electrons and its electronics configuration can be written as 2,8,7.
