Answer:
Depends on what are you refering to
Explanation:
So depending on what you are looking for (your question is quite vauge)
there are 5 atoms of the comopound (K2CO3)
within that compound, there are 2 atoms of Potassium and 1 atom of Carbonate. Within Carbonate there are 4 atoms (1 carbon and 3 oxygens)
so answers may be
5, 15, or 25.
I hope this helps.
Basically all of the elements found in Group I of the periodic table also have this property. The ability to easily give up a single valence electron.
