Chemistry A-Level
Relationship to molecular formula
What Relationship to molecular formula means in Chemistry A-Level, as defined for OCR.
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The empirical formula is often a reduced version of the molecular formula, as C₆H₁₂O₆ and CH₂O share the empirical formula CH₂O.
Topics that use Relationship to molecular formula
- Amount of substance (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- amount of substance
- atom economy
- Atom economy and by-products
- Concentration in mol dm⁻³
- Converting between cm³ and dm³
- Converting between moles and number of particles
- Empirical formula
- Empirical formula mass and molecular formula multiplier
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