Chemistry, asked by Manaskr, 1 year ago

why oxygen is written as O2 instead of O ??

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Answered by shashankavsthi

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.

jaswanthdon123pdufsq: it is because oxygen has two number of oxygen coponents

shashankavsthi: wow thanks!!

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