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What does the empirical formula of a compound describe?

What does the empirical formula of a compound describe?
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What does the empirical formula of a compound describe?

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it is what form where all coeficients are made into the smallest whole numbers

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2C+4HC=8HC could be simplified to
C+2HC=4HC (note: formula is not a liegit one, only for example)
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