Q: When you are writing an electron dot diagram, which side do you start with?

Flexi Says: Electron dot diagrams are diagrams in which the valence electrons of an atom are shown as dots distributed around the element’s symbol. A beryllium atom, with two valence electrons, would have the electron dot both side of the atom. Since electrons repel each other, the dots for a given atom are distributed evenly around the symbol before they are paired.