when using your Microsoft Word, on your menu bar,click on format menu,click on font, select subscript and click ok
To type the atomic number in Microsoft Word 2007, you can use the subscript formatting feature. Simply highlight the number you want to make subscript, right-click, select "Font," and then check the box for subscript. This will lower the selected number to appear like a subscript.
If you mean using subscript (for example H2SO4) on WikiAnswers - Type your text as normal, then go back and highlight the text you want to change, and press the button on the blue line above - that's labelled X2
To type small numbers for chemical formulas and exponents, you can use the subscript and superscript functions in most text editors or word processing software. In HTML, you can use for subscript and for superscript. You can also use keyboard shortcuts like Ctrl+= (for superscript) and Ctrl+Shift+= (for subscript) on some platforms.
This is called subscript. In order to type in subscript on programs like Microsoft Word press the "ctrl" key (doesn't matter if it's lctrl or rctrl); while holding it down also press the "=" key then let go. From now on anything you type will be in subscript. In order to get out of subscript mode press "ctrl" and "=" at the same time again. In order to do this in programs like Google Drive, just replace "=" with "," and it should work the same way. Also, if you ever need to subscript using html the way to do that is <sub>text</sub> any text between the <sub>s will be smaller.
The subscript that is to the right of the element symbol, no subscript means 1. Example H2O, 2 hydrogen 1 oxygen
The subscript 4 in CF4, which stands for carbon tetrafluoride, indicates that there are four fluorine atoms bonded to one carbon atom in the molecule.
The subscript that is to the right of the element symbol, no subscript means 1. Example H2O, 2 hydrogen 1 oxygen
Why doesn't the 0xygen have a subscript?
That would be subscript.
That would be subscript.
The subscript number after a chemical symbol indicates how many atoms of that element are present in a single molecule of the compound.
ctrl = for subscript ctrl shift = for superscript