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Chemical Formulas and Chemical Compounds

What Do You Think?. CCl4 MgCl2Guess the name of each of the above compounds based on the formulas written.What kind of information can you discern from the formulas?Guess which of the compounds represented is molecular and which is ionic.Chemical formulas form the basis of the language o

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Chemical Formulas and Chemical Compounds

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    1. Chemical Formulas and Chemical Compounds Chapter 7

    2. What Do You Think? CCl4 MgCl2 Guess the name of each of the above compounds based on the formulas written. What kind of information can you discern from the formulas? Guess which of the compounds represented is molecular and which is ionic. Chemical formulas form the basis of the language of chemistry and reveal much information about the substances they represent.

    3. Chemical Names and Formulas Section 1

    4. Significance of a Chemical Formula A chemical formula indicates the relative number of atoms of each kind in a chemical compound. For a molecular compound, the chemical formula reveals the number of atoms of each element contained in a single molecule of the compound. example: octane — C8H18

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