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What a compound formula tells about compound'?

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It tells what elements are in a compound and the number of each type of atom in each molecule/formula unit.

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What compound formula tells you about the compound?
It tells you how many and what elements this compound containseg.water's formula is H2O- this shows that it contains 2 hydrogen atoms and 1 oxygen atom.
What does a compound's formula tell about the compound?
The chemical composition of the compound
If a formula for compound what do the numbers tell you?
Subscripts give you the number of molecules in that compound. (For example, H2O contains one molecule of Hydrogen.) Superscripts give you a charge.
What does compounds molecular formula tells what?
Molecular formula of a chemical substance is representative for the composition of this chemical substance.
In a formula for a compound what do the numbers tell you?
the numbers are what is in a compound number