Question

4. The subscript in a chemical formula refers to the _____. radical state isotope number atomic mass number of atoms

Answer 1

Answer: The correct answer is for the blank is- number of atoms.

Chemical formula is a respresentation of proportion of different elements that are present in a compound.

When a compound possesses more than one atom of an element, its chemical symbols has the respective number in its subscript.

In other words, subscript in a chemical formula refers to the number of atoms of that element.

For Example- chemical formula of glucose is C6H12O6, which represents 6 number of carbon atoms, 12 number of hydrogen atoms, and 6 number of oxygen atoms in the glucose.

Answer 2

The subscript in a chemical formula refers to the number of atoms that a particular element has.