Name the term is used for the symbolic representation of a molecule of an element or a compound and give an example of it
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you noticed how a house is made, brick by brick? It all starts with laying the first brick which gradually graduates into a full-fledged wall. If this wall is a chemical compound, then the brick is the atom. An atom is the smallest indivisible particle in any chemical equation.
While they may be the smallest unit of a chemical compound, their importance is pretty much like that of the brick used to build the house. Without it, there will be no house. Similarly, our entire universe is made up of atoms.
Symbols for Atoms of Various Elements
Every element in nature is signified with a chemical name, a chemical valency and a symbol which is used to refer to this element while creating chemical equations. This symbol denotes a singular atom. That is to say, when we refer to Aluminium as Al, it refers to a single atom of Aluminium.
The first scientist to use symbols for chemical elements was Dalton. He was the one who used the symbols of the elements in a specified quantity, i.e one atom of the element. Later on, Berzilius suggested that we could use one or two letters of the element to form its symbol.
Initially, symbols for the name of elements were derived from the place they originated from. So copper was taken from Cyprus, while gold was meant yellow and so it was denoted accordingly. However, today the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry approves the element names.
While they may be the smallest unit of a chemical compound, their importance is pretty much like that of the brick used to build the house. Without it, there will be no house. Similarly, our entire universe is made up of atoms.
Symbols for Atoms of Various Elements
Every element in nature is signified with a chemical name, a chemical valency and a symbol which is used to refer to this element while creating chemical equations. This symbol denotes a singular atom. That is to say, when we refer to Aluminium as Al, it refers to a single atom of Aluminium.
The first scientist to use symbols for chemical elements was Dalton. He was the one who used the symbols of the elements in a specified quantity, i.e one atom of the element. Later on, Berzilius suggested that we could use one or two letters of the element to form its symbol.
Initially, symbols for the name of elements were derived from the place they originated from. So copper was taken from Cyprus, while gold was meant yellow and so it was denoted accordingly. However, today the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry approves the element names.
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