chemical formula

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noun

A representation of a substance using symbols for its constituent elements and subscript numbers to indicate the proportional number of atoms.

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One day we were eating lunch together and he handed me a scrap of paper with a chemical formula on it.

From Seattle Times ● May 20, 2024

The new workflow can also identify isomers, which are molecules with the same chemical formula but different atomic arrangements.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 8, 2024

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Possible Synonyms

substance shorthand
atomic recipe
elemental makeup
chemical notation
molecular formula

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Words in our thesaurus

structural formula

other words

chemical name
full diagram
common name
verbose description