why oxygen is written as O2 instead of O ??
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Because oxygen simply represents oxygen gas
and gas is a compound made of two oxygen atom.
hence it is called O2
When it is said atom then we can write simply O.
and gas is a compound made of two oxygen atom.
hence it is called O2
When it is said atom then we can write simply O.
jaswanthdon123pdufsq:
it is because oxygen has two number of oxygen coponents
wow thanks!!
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