b. The element with atomic number 8 in is oxygen and the element with atomic number 13 is aluminum.
Oxygen is a non-metal and aluminum is a metal they form an ionic bond
and the name of the compound formed isaluminum oxide.
Electronic configuration of Alis . Thus it donates three electron to form .
Electronic configuration of oxygenis . It accepts two electron to form .
Thus two atoms of Al combines with three atoms of O to form a neutral molecule aluminum oxide.
It can be shown by criss-cross method that interchanging the oxidation numbers of the cation and anion would give the formula of the neutral molecule.
The formula is