EMPIRICAL FORMULA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

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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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