Sunday, November 15, 2015

Empirical Formulas

Another part of this unit is empirical formulas. They differ from molecular compounds in that they are the lowest number ratio of elements in a compound that cannot be reduced. Molecular formulas would look something like C10H22 whereas empirical would look like C5H11. They can be the same if the molecular is reduced, though.



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  1. UnknownNovember 17, 2015 at 6:05 PM

    Thanks for this awesome blog post about empirical formulas. It does an excellent job explaining them without being too confusing. I wish I would've seen this post before the test because the empirical formulas on the test were rather difficult.

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