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What are subscripts in a chemical formula and what do they stand for?

What are subscripts in a chemical formula and what do they stand for?
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What are subscripts in a chemical formula and what do they stand for?

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User Oleksii Volynskyi
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Subscripts are the small numbers that tell us how many atoms are in a molecule, So in H2O it would be the 2
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User Mojtaba Valizadeh
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I think they stand for how many of that element there are and then they are the little numbers on the bottom right of the letters
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