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The oxidation of magnesium is a process, and as such has a chemical equation rather than a formula: 2 Mg + O2 -> 2 MgO. MgO is the chemical formula for the oxide of magnesium.
Mg is magnesium. The CN- anion is named cyanide. Thus, Mg(CN)2 is called magnesium cyanide.
The chemical formula AgCl is for silver chloride.
The "symbol" for a compound is properly called a chemical formula, and for methylene chloride it is CH2Cl2.
Oh, dude, like, I got you! So, the correct name for MgCl3 is magnesium chloride. Magnesium because of the Mg, and chloride because of the Cl. It's like chemistry naming 101, bro.
PCl3 is the formula. This is the compound we know as phosphorus trichloride.
The formula for mercurous chloride (Hg2Cl2). It is also called mercury(I) chloride.
Sodium chloride is a compound with the chemical formula NaCl. As a mineral sodium chloride is called halite.
One compound would be Silver Chloride - chemical formula AgCl
It forms SnCl2 . It is called Stannous Chloride
If you mean epsom salt, the chemical formula is MgSO4, also called magnesium sulfate.
No: Each "mole", more precisely called "formula mass", of sodium chloride contains two ions, as shown by its formula NaCl, but each formula mass of magnesium chloride has three ions as shown by its formula MgCl2. This is true because sodium cations have only one positive electric charge unit, magnesium cations have two electric charge units, and chloride ions have one negative electric charge unit each.