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What is the difference between a chemical symbol in a chemical formula

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A chemical symbol is used to stand for one element commonly on the periodic table. A chemical formula is for a compound, it consists of chemical symbols.
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a chemical symbol is an intial representing something but chemical formula is the way to solve the intials or question
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