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aleksandr82 [10.1K]
3 years ago
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What are subscripts in a chemical formula and what do they stand for?

Chemistry
2 answers:
erma4kov [3.2K]3 years ago
8 0
I think they stand for how many of that element there are and then they are the little numbers on the bottom right of the letters
emmainna [20.7K]3 years ago
7 0
Subscripts are the small numbers that tell us how many atoms are in a molecule, So in H2O it would be the 2 
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