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Grade 11Physical Chemistry

sir why we write co2 always in emperical formulla
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Profile image of Randhir Kumar Pathak
7 Years agoGrade 11
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Profile image of The Chullies Tech
7 Years ago
CO2 is not a empirical formula.  
It is it's real molecular formula. 
1C + 1O2 > CO2
 
And what the hell is that you repeatedly typed character 'a' . 
Was that your nonsense or just by mistake. .
Profile image of vasanth
7 Years ago
emperical formula means simplest atomic mass.for CO2 it is simplest so emperical formula and molecular formula for CO2 is same
Profile image of Gayathri
7 Years ago
CO2 is both empirical and Molecular formula
 since it is also short formula