Tag: Common Compounds

  • 3.6 Formulae for common chemical compounds

    Most of these formulae appear in molecular chemical form rather than structural form. For example, ethanol appears here as C2H6O rather than C2H5OH. Also, the entries for fructose and glucose are identical (C6H12O6) despite the two compounds having different structures. This means most of the formulae shown in this section merely represent the ratios of each element…