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How can there be 2 O in CH3COOH?

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Anonymous

12y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

The molecule is described that way in order to give an idea of the bond pattern. If you just wanted to count elements, you could also call it C2H4O2 which gives the same count. But it has a pattern. There is a carbon in the middle, it has a methyl group (CH3) attached to it, and an oxygen attached to it, and a hydroxyl group (OH) attached to it. It has 3 different bonds, the oxygen is a double bond and the other two are single bonds, adding up to four, which is exactly the valence of carbon, so it works perfectly.

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