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In general, it's impossible to know ahead of time how much of compound A and how much of compound B might be in a particular mixture of A and B. The mixture doesn't have any given chemical formula, because sometimes it might be mostly A with some B and sometimes it might be almost all B with only a tiny bit of A. There's one exception to this: Sometimes you'll see formulas given for mixtures where the proportions are known, e.g. a particular mineral might have a "formula" of Ca(0.8)Mg(0.2)CO(3) where the numbers in parentheses represent subscripts.

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