CHEM1006 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Sodium Fluoride, Chemical Formula, Structural Formula

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Molecular formulas describe the exact number and type of atoms in a single molecule of a compound. The constituent elements are represented by their chemical symbols, and the number of atoms of each element present in each molecule is shown as a subscript following that element"s symbol. The molecular formula expresses information about the proportions of atoms that constitute a particular chemical compound, using a single line of chemical element symbols and numbers. Sometimes it also includes other symbols, such as parentheses, dashes, brackets, and plus and minus signs. For organic compounds, carbon and hydrogen are listed as the first elements in the molecular formula, and they are followed by the remaining elements in alphabetical order. For ionic compounds, the cation precedes the anion in the molecular formula. The molecular formula of sodium fluoride is naf. A molecular formula is not a chemical name, and it contains no words.

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