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Why you write 2 under O?

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Anonymous

16y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

In chemical terminology the "2" is a subscript and indicates the number of atoms in the molecule, in this case the "O" is the chemical sybol for oxygen. Therefore there are two oxygen atoms in this molecule.

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