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Answer: PCl₃O
Explanation:
1) The chemical formula tells the composition of a compound in terms of the ratio of number of atoms of each element that consitutes such compound.
2) You use the chemical symbol for each kind of atom (element) and subscripts to the right of each symbol to tell the number of atoms of each element.
3) For example, O₂ means two atoms of oxygen. Al₂O₃ means two atoms of aluminum and 3 atoms of oxygen.
4) Therefore, PCl₃O means a ratio 1 : 3 : 1 for phosphorus, chlorine, and oxygen.
Hence, PCl₃O is the chemical formula of your compound.
- if the compound is made of just two elements, if one is a metal (ie belongs to any of groups 1, 2 or 3) and the other element a non metal, (ie belongs to group 5, 6 or 7) then the compound is most likely to be an ionic compound. For example NaCl, MgO
- If the compound is made of identical non metalic elements as in O2, Cl2 then the compound is covalent
- If the compoud is made of just two elements that are both non metals such as in SO2, CO, NO, CCl4, the compound is covalent
- If the compound is made up of more than two elements, such as in HNO3, Na2CO3, CuSO4.5H2O, you may need to break the compound into dissociating parts. You will see that, the compounds are ionic.
- Hydrocarbons, compounds containing only hydrogen and carbon of varying molecular size are all covalent. Examples are C2H6, C2H4, C2H2
Note that there could be some little exceptions to the examples given. Mostly with first members of every group because of their small size which make them show substantial deviations from group behavior. For example HCl is covalent not ionic.
