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circa1934
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High School - 11th Grade

How To You Find The Atoms In An Element And Do You Add Them Up?

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Posted by circa1934 on Tuesday February 17, 2009 at 3:24 PM and tagged with periodic table of elements, science.

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  1. malinna
    malinna Teacher
    Middle School

    An element is most properly made entirely of the same type of atom, and would be written in a chemical formula such as O2 with the 2 written as a subscript.  The subscript tells how many atoms in that molecule.

    If you are asking about the atoms in a compound there is a bit more to figure it out, so let us know which you are looking for.

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    Posted by malinna on Tuesday March 24, 2009 at 9:43 PM