What is a Chemical Formula?What is the Significance of a Formula?Give an Example to Illustrate.

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What is a chemical formula? What is the significance of a formula?give an example to illustrate?

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The chemical formula is used to describe the types of atoms and its number in an element or compound.

Significance- Chemical formula is very important when trying to find information about chemical compounds because they tell us about the elements present and the number of atoms in that compound.

Example - Salt - NaCl, ethanol C2H6O because the molecule of ethanol contains two Carbon, 6 Hydrogen and 1 Oxygen atom.

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अध्याय 1: The Language of Chemistry - Exercise 1 (A) [पृष्ठ ९]

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सेलिना Concise Chemistry [English] Class 9 ICSE

अध्याय 1 The Language of Chemistry
Exercise 1 (A) | Q 9 | पृष्ठ ९

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