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Chemical formula   /kˈɛməkəl fˈɔrmjələ/   Listen
Chemical formula

noun
1.
A representation of a substance using symbols for its constituent elements.  Synonym: formula.






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"Chemical formula" Quotes from Famous Books



... complex chemical way. For example, the substance called haemoglobin is the protein which exists in the red blood cells and which causes those cells to appear light red or yellow when seen singly. Its chemical formula states the precise number of atoms which enter into the constitution of a single molecule as: C{600}H{960}N{154}FeO{179}. This is truly a marvelously complex substance when compared with the materials of the inorganic world, like water, for example, which has the formula ...
— The Doctrine of Evolution - Its Basis and Its Scope • Henry Edward Crampton

... peddle hexameters in the wholesale district in Chicago. And I've seen boys who slid through the course just half a hair's breadth ahead of the Faculty boot, go out and do the bossing for a whole Congressional district in five years. They hadn't learned the exact chemical formula of the universe, but they had learned how to run the blamed thing from practicing on the ...
— At Good Old Siwash • George Fitch



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