Empirical Formulas

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Vivien Truong 1A
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Empirical Formulas

Postby Vivien Truong 1A » Tue Dec 07, 2021 8:56 am

Is a formula considered empirical if all the subscripts is not divisible by a common value, or is there an additional process to find it?
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Re: Empirical Formulas

Postby Chem_Mod » Tue Dec 07, 2021 2:22 pm

Yes! So if you have C2H7O this would be both the empirical formula as well as molecular formula since it no longer can be simplified!
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