Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the 20th century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity. Born in Portsmouth, Dickens left school to work in a factory when his father was incarcerate
So all in all, there are 6 electrons that are involve in the bonding (3 bonding pairs) and 2 electrons that are non-bonding (1 non-bonding pair) since the two of its valence electrons did not pair up to form a bond. Carbon on the other hand has 4 valence electrons coming from Group IVA and thus will need four electrons more to have an 8. Each of these 4 valence electrons will pair up with an incoming. atom to form 4 bonds and consequently will have four bonding pairs and none non-bonding pair.
Not all of the electrons in an atom make chemical bonds. Most atoms form bonds using only the electrons in the outermost energy level. An electron in the outermost energy level of an atom is a valence electron. The models in Figure 3 show the valence electrons for two atoms. Figure 3 Counting Valence Electrons