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No. Numerical subscripts must be whole numbers, so you need to double each subscript and you will get N2H4O3. However, ammonium nitrate is an ionic compound and the formula includes both ions separately. The ammonium ion has the formula NH4+, and the nitrate ion has the formula NO3-. When you write a formula for an ionic compound, the positively charged ion is written first, and the negatively charged ion is written second. So the formula for ammonium nitrate is NH4NO3. Also, the numberical subscript 1 is never written. If there is no subscript written, it is understood to be 1.

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Q: Can you write the formula for ammonium nitrate N1H2O1.5?
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