Diatomic Elements

[Patience-2L]

Hello,

I have a technicality question when it comes to solving for limiting reactions. When a questions says oxygen or fluorine is reacting with something do we assume that it is O2 or F2 when writing the chemical equation because there are diatomic?

Thank you

[Sherri Xu 2B]

Generally, unless the question says otherwise, I would assume O2 and F2. Most of the questions I've done related to O assumed that it was O2.

[Jessica Johal 2B]

I agree and I would add that O2 is usually referred to as "oxygen gas" while O is "elemental oxygen."