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What is ½O2 ? pls help me!!!

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it should be just O.
User CyberRobot
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Basically,1/2O2 is just one oxygen atom out of the two.the double bind is broken,and you get to oxygen ions instead of oxygen gas.Notably oxygen is diatomic gas,which means that has two oxygen in one molecule.
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