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What is the little number immediately to the right of each elements in a compound?
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What do subscripts represent?
the number of the elements that is present in a compound
How do you identify a compound or an element?
Elements are pretty much defined by the number of protons in the nucleus. This number (the atomic number) defines the element. All the different elements have different numbers of protons in their nucleus.
What is the atomic number for CO2?
CO2 does not have an atomic number as it is a compound. Only elements have atomic numbers.
Elements a compound contains and the exact number of the atoms of each element in a unit of that compound is called what?
That is called a formula.
How can the number of elements be identified within a compound?
Count the different chemical symbols in a compound's chemical formula to identify the number of elements. For instance, in the formula for sucrose (table sugar) C12H22O11 there are three elements -- C, H, and O. These represent carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen.
What is the number of elements in the compound bromic acid?
there are 3 elements
What do subscripts represent?
the number of the elements that is present in a compound
How do you identify the number of elements in a compound?
The number of elements in a compound can be determined by looking at the chemical formula and identifying each element's symbol. For example, the compound CO2 has two elements, carbon and oxygen. Another example, glucose, has the formula C6H12O6, and has three elements, carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen.
Elements with an oxidation number of 1 include what elements?
The oxidation number of lead (Pb) in the compound PbCl2 has to be what?
How do you identify a compound or an element?
Elements are pretty much defined by the number of protons in the nucleus. This number (the atomic number) defines the element. All the different elements have different numbers of protons in their nucleus.
What is the least number of atoms in a compound?
A compound must have at least two atoms of different elements.
What is the oxidation number of the elements in the compound N2O?
magnesium bromide
How can you write the farmula of elements?
I'm not sure but if we take a number of elements so you name them as compound.
Is chlorine an elements or compound?
Chlorine is an element. Its atomic number is 17 on the periodic table of the elements.
How do you count the number of elements in a compound?
the atomis mass and the atomic number is all you need
How do you determine the number of elements using the formula of a compound?
an element is a single substance while a compound is made up of multiple elements. Theirs no way to now how many elements form to make a compound... only through a microscope/
What tells what elements a compound contains and the exaxt number of each element in a unit of that compound?
a chemical formula
