4/11/2016. There's no way I would ever rate a box store 5 stars, but I do like our Home Depot. The service isn't always the greatest, but it's usually pretty decent. The have a wide selection and the prices are generally the best in town.
Electrons with the highest energy levels exist in the outermost shell of an atom and are relatively loosely bound to the atom. This outermost shell is known as the valance shell and electrons in this shell are called valance electrons. A completed outermost shell has valance of zero.
In the third period of the table, the atoms all have a neon-like core of 10 electrons, and shell #3 is occupied progressively with eight electrons, starting with the 3s-orbital. The highest occupied electron shell is called the valence shell, and the electrons occupying this shell are called valence electrons. The chemical properties of the elements reflect their electron configurations. For example, helium, neon and argon are exceptionally stable and unreactive monoatomic gases.