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Vilka [71]
3 years ago
6

When do you use parentheses in writing a chemical formula?

Chemistry
1 answer:
creativ13 [48]3 years ago
7 0
In general, When writing<span> the </span>chemical formula<span> of a compound that contains a polyatomic ion, in order to indicate more than one polyatomic ion in the </span>formula, putparentheses<span> around the polyatomic ion before </span>writing<span> the subscript.

Hope this helps. :)

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