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The type and the number of atoms of each element present.
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How do you tell how many elements are in a compound formula?
A chemical formula will always tell you how many of each element is in a particular formula. For example glucose (C6H12O6) contains six carbons, twelve hydrogens and 6 oxygens. All together this is three elements, and 24 atoms. Try water..the chemical formula is H2O. So it contains two hydrogen atoms, and one oxygen atom. This is two elements, but three atoms. I hope this helped!
Give an example of the chemical formula of a compound What does this example tell you about the compound?
The formula of a compound called methane is CH4. This formula shows, among many other things, that there are four times as many hydrogen atoms as carbon atoms in methane and that each molecule contains 5 total atoms.
What two things does a chemical formula tell us about a compound?
the actual number of atoms in a molecule
What information is contained in a chemical equation?
A chemical formula contains information on the types and spatial arrangement of bonds in the chemical.It also tells you what elements are in the chemical, and how many atoms of each. The spatial arrangement is not necessarily very obvious from the formula, e.g. C2H5OH does not tell you much about the spatial arrangement of the bonds.A chemical formula uses symbols and numbers o represent the composition of a pure substance
How can you tell that substance compound by looking at its formula?
Characteristics of a substance are called properties. Substances have chemical properties - how they react with other substances and physical properties - boiling and melting point, colour, solid liquid or gas, smell...
What does a chemical compound formula tell you?
It tells what elements are present in a molecule and how many atoms of each element are present.
What is the difference between a symbol and a formula?
A chemical symbol is just an abbreviation of that chemical's name while a formula will tell you how many of each different element are in a specific chemical compound.
When ice melts why can you tell there is not a chemical change?
Melting is not a chemical change because the chemical formula of water remain unchanged.
How many H atoms are present in a chemical formula?
By looking at an actual chemical formula for a compound, we could tell you how many hydrogen atoms there are per molecule (or at least per formula unit) of that compound.Without the specific chemical formula, we can't. So the question is meaningless ... how many hydrogen atoms are present in a chemical formula depends on what the chemical formula is.
What does the chemical formula for a molecule tell you?
What and how many elements it's composed of
How do you tell how many elements are in a compound formula?
A chemical formula will always tell you how many of each element is in a particular formula. For example glucose (C6H12O6) contains six carbons, twelve hydrogens and 6 oxygens. All together this is three elements, and 24 atoms. Try water..the chemical formula is H2O. So it contains two hydrogen atoms, and one oxygen atom. This is two elements, but three atoms. I hope this helped!
What do chemical formulas tell you the number of?
A chemical formula tells you the number of each type of atom in the molecule or structure.
In the chemical formula for magnesium chloride what is the number 2 called and what does it tell you?
subscript
Does a chemical formula tell you how many atoms of an element are in a unit of a compound?
yes it does
The chemical formula of a compound does not indicate?
The chemical formula of a compound does not indicate the way that elements are joined in the compound. Chemical formulas tell you the identity of the elements in the compound and the relative proportions of the elements.
How do you tell the difference between water and acetic acid?
Water has the chemical formula H2O. Acetic acid has the formula CH3COOH.
What do the subscript numbers represent in a chemical formula?
They tell you how often an atom - or a group of atoms - are repeated.
