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While coming back from school in the school in the school bus , Bill asked his friend Gill to predict the atoms, X and Y while form a stable dinegative ion and a uninegative ion respectively . They have same number of electrons in the L shell which is the shell inner to the valence shell . predict the answer given by gill .

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`{:("",X^(-2),Y^(-1)),(EC," 2, 8, 8","2, 8, 8"):}`
Electronic configuration of corresponding neutral atoms, X and Y are as follows:
`X to 2,8, 6" " Y to 2, 8 , 7`
Atomic numbers of X and Y are 16 and 17 respectively, and hence, they are sulphur and chlorine.
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