The uranium within these items is radioactive and should be treated with care. Uranium's most stable isotope, uranium-238, has a half-life of about 4,468,000,000 years. It decays into thorium-234 through alpha decay or decays through spontaneous fission.
The answer is 7. Valence electrons are the electrons in the very last shell, so we need to look at the outer “circle” and count the electrons, or the little black dots. There are 7 in the last shell.
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According to the Environmental Paper Network's Paper Calculator, it takes about 32 million BTUs of energy to produce 1 ton of virgin paper fiber. To produce 1 ton of recycled paper, it takes about 22 million BTUs.
so the answer could be it takes less Btu to manufacture recycled products than new ones
