What are subscripts in a chemical formula and what do they stand for?

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Subscripts are the small numbers that tell us how many atoms are in a molecule, So in H2O it would be the 2

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I think they stand for how many of that element there are and then they are the little numbers on the bottom right of the letters

Farhad Farahi answered Nov 25, 2018

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