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Kamila [148]
4 years ago
7

What does the subscript 2 indicate in the compound mgcl2?

Chemistry
2 answers:
Minchanka [31]4 years ago
7 0

The answer is A I believe, the subscript 2 indicates that there are two magnesium ions for each ion of chlorine. the chloride ion is twice the size of the magnesium ion. magnesium and chlorine form a double covalent bond. there are two chloride ions for each magnesium ion.

tia_tia [17]4 years ago
7 0

Answer: Option (b) is the correct answer.

Explanation:

It is known that when we write a chemical formula then the subscript present in it represents the number of atoms of an element are participating in the chemical bonding.

For example, as the given compound is MgCl_{2}.

So here, no subscript is present on magnesium atom which means that its subscript is 1 and chlorine atom has a subscript 2 which means that there are 2 atoms of chlorine are present in MgCl_{2}.

Therefore, we can conclude that the subscript 2 indicate in the compound MgCl_{2} that there are 2 chloride ions for each magnesium ion.

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