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What is the difference between Empirical formula and Molecular formula?

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Molecular formula has actual numbers of atoms of different elements. While empirical formula has same ratio in simplest/smallest form. E.g. Glucose (Molecular Formula: C6H12O6, Empirical Formula: CH2O)
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empirical formula is the simplest ratio of atoms of the compound but molecular formula is exactly the number of atoms in one mole of the compound . e.g glucose has molecular formula C6H12O6 but its emperical formula will be C1H2O1. you can understand the difference in common terms as : You are cooking...
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empirical formula is the simplest ratio of atoms of the compound but molecular formula is exactly the number of atoms in one mole of the compound . e.g glucose has molecular formula C6H12O6 but its emperical formula will be C1H2O1. you can understand the difference in common terms as : You are cooking a vegetable and your mom told you that put salt 4 spoon and spices 2 spoon. but you remember it as salt vs spice ratio is 2:1 in particular vegetable. so Sa4Sp2 is your molecular formula and Sa2Sp1 is your empirical formula. where Sa --> Salt , Sp --> Spice, C--> Carbon , H--> Hydrogen ,O--> Oxygen. read less
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molecular formual when expressed in prime number factors u get emperical formula
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Molecular formula gives us the information that how many atoms of each element are in a compound, and empirical formula tell us the most reduced ratio of elements in a compound. If a compound's molecular formula cannot be reduced any more, then the empirical formula is the same as the molecular for...
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Molecular formula gives us the information that how many atoms of each element are in a compound, and empirical formula tells us the simplest or most reduced ratio of elements in a compound. If a compound's molecular formula cannot be reduced any more, then the empirical formula is the same as the molecular...
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Molecular formula gives us the information that how many atoms of each element are in a compound, and empirical formula tells us the simplest or most reduced ratio of elements in a compound. If a compound's molecular formula cannot be reduced any more, then the empirical formula is the same as the molecular formula. read less
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