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EMPIRICAL FORMULA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does empirical formula mean? 

EMPIRICAL FORMULA (noun)
  The noun EMPIRICAL FORMULA has 1 sense:

1. a chemical formula showing the ratio of elements in a compound rather than the total number of atomsplay

  Familiarity information: EMPIRICAL FORMULA used as a noun is very rare.


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EMPIRICAL FORMULA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A chemical formula showing the ratio of elements in a compound rather than the total number of atoms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("empirical formula" is a kind of...):

chemical formula; formula (a representation of a substance using symbols for its constituent elements)


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