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
• Greek: μοριακός τύπος (el) m (moriakós týpos)
• Hungarian: molekulaképlet (hu)
• Japanese: 分子式 (ja) (ぶんししき, bunshishiki)
• Maori: tātai matū
• Polish: wzór sumaryczny (pl) 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
• Vietnamese: công thức phân tử
• Welsh: fformiwla foleciwlaidd f

See also

• empirical formula