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The compound CO2 is made of two atoms of cobalt. one atom of cobalt and two atoms of oxygen. two atoms of carbon and one atom of oxygen. one atom of carbon and two atoms of oxygen.

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one atom of carbon and two of oxygen

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User Kamy D
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One atom of carbon and two atoms of oxygen.

Cobalt is Co, Carbon is C, and Oxygen is O. It can't be cobalt, because the O is uppercase, meaning it's carbon and oxygen respectively.

And also, because of the subscript 2 underneath oxygen, we can tell there are two of them. This means that there are two oxygen atoms, and only one carbon atom.
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