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OpenStudy (anonymous):

Why can't helium and oxygen bond? I've kind of forgotten how to answer this but I know it has to do with the sharing valence electrons.

OpenStudy (jfraser):

oxygen needs to share valence electrons to fill its outer shell, but helium has no need to share. it already has a full level

OpenStudy (anonymous):

Thanks. It was kind of confusing me c:

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