molecular formula

molecular formula

English

Noun

molecular formula (plural molecular formulas or molecular formulae)

1. (chemistry) A notation indicating the number of atoms of each element present in one molecule of a substance.

   The molecular formula for ethane is C₂H₆, while the empirical formula is CH₃.

Translations

a notation indicating the number of atoms of each element present in a molecule

Chinese: Cantonese: 分子式 (fan6 zi2 sik1) Mandarin: 分子式 (zh) (fēnzǐshì) Czech: sumární vzorec m, molekulární vzorec m Danish: sumformel c, bruttoformel c Finnish: molekyylikaava (fi) French: formule moléculaire (fr) f Galician: fórmula química (gl) f German: Summenformel (de) f, Bruttoformel f Hungarian: molekulaképlet (hu) Japanese: 分子式 (ja) (ぶんししき, bunshishiki) Maori: tātai matū Polish: wzór sumaryczny m inan Portuguese: fórmula química f Romanian: formulă moleculară f Russian: молекуля́рная фо́рмула f (molekuljárnaja fórmula) Spanish: fórmula química (es) f Swedish: molekylärformel Tagalog: mulatling sanyo

See also

• empirical formula